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Subject: Re: Optical disk questions
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In article <4130@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> d757@sphinx.UChicago.edu (Lawrence Lerner) writes:
>   As an undergrad with a few CS courses under my belt what are some good
>books or reports to read for new developments in OS????

I'd say that the following are required reading:

	Peterson & Silberschatz, Edition II (very nice for general OS concepts,
		summarizes the "good" ideas in that have come out of both
		research & practice).
	
	CS 736 reading list:  or your approximation.  Go buy the papers for
		a grad level course on OS, preferable from a hot OS school 
		(know anyone at CMU?  UCB?).  Most of the stuff is in P&S but 
		if the prof is on the ball [s]he'll have added the newest & 
		greatest.
	
	Doug Comer's Xinu books (both are great).

	Bach's book on UNIX if you really want to know. (Skip the Lyons doc,
		it's too out of date).
		
	The AT&T tech journals on unix: basic, basic, basic.

	The MACH papers from CMU - just ask and they shalt deliver.

	The Sprite papers from Berkeley.

OK, all done?  Now you're ready to start looking at slightly old stuff :-)  
A good place to start is a workstation with unix src (doesn't really matter 
which version, they all have run queues...)   Poke around a bit.  Write a
device driver that uses a different strategy...  See how it works now.  This 
will take more than ten minutes (unless you're above average :-)

OK.  Now start reading journals.  Going straight to the journals is probably 
a mistake - you don't appreciate it yet.  

Enjoy, enjoy,
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