From owner-freebsd-small Sun Dec 5 11:57: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from edna.bus.net (edna.bus.net [207.41.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617761542F for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:56:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mso@bus.net) Received: from bus.net (31.ct4.dyn.connix.net [209.66.144.94]) by edna.bus.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14087 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:57:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mso@bus.net) Message-ID: <384AC3E4.21B6EF13@bus.net> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:58:28 -0500 From: "Michael S. O'Donnell" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: i'm a bit lost, you see Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm an EE, trying to do less manufacturing and more embedded. despite heavy reading in the newsgroups, etc. i'm having a hard time getting the 'big picture' on OSs. can anyone recommend a good book, or three, (or FAQs, or anything) on the subject to help me get up to speed on both the theory and general practice? any assistance would be greatly appreciated. post to group, mail me directly, whatever. my sincerest thanks, Michael S. O'Donnell mso@bus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message