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From: jparnas@arnor.UUCP (Jacob Parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Reference Material on Unix internals?
Keywords: kernel
Message-ID: <171@arnor.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 03:26:21 GMT
References: <198@umrisca.isc.umr.edu>
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In article <198@umrisca.isc.umr.edu> henryc@cs.umr.edu (Henry Clark) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any information regarding the internals of the Unix
>kernel?  We are running BSD (AOS) 4.3 in IBM Mode on an RT PC.  I am
>specifically looking for information on things like the user structure,
>process structure, how segments (data, text, stack) are mapped into
>memory and how they may be accessed, etc.  Please send E-Mail to the
>above address.  Thanks...
>
>Henry
>
>************************************
>*   You call this archaeology????  *
>************************************

Try reading "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD Operating System
by Leffler, McKusick, Karels and Quarterman, published by Addison Wesley,
ISBN: 0-201-06196-1, copyright 1989.

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