From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 1: 4:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E27E37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:04:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBC243F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:04:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nxUU-000PuQ-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:04:39 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nxUC-000PuC-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:04:21 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nxU8-0005to-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:04:16 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18nxU7-0004oF-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:04:15 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: "Neeraj Arora" , , Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 Questions Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:04:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302261104.15099.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18nxUC-000PuC-00*rRQtVHfBwbo* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:59, someone, possibly Neeraj Arora, typed: > another good place to search for information would be the book > > the design and implementation of 4.4 bsd Neeraj, I might be completely off, but I think this book goes to 4.4BSD as it was=20 published by UCB. This is very different from FreeBSD 4.4. 4.4BSD is what=20 =46reeBSD 1.0 (and everything following that) was based on :) This would still be a good read to get some historical insights into the=20 architecture of BSD though. Will > >>> Willie Viljoen 02/26/03 06:52PM >>> > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 9:34, someone, possibly Aas, Eskild, typed: > > Dear Sirs > > > > > > We are three students attending H=E6rens Ingeni=F8rh=F8gskole (the norw= egian > > millitary engineering school). We are currently working on an > > assignment about operating systems. We are writing about FreeBSD 4.4. > > We would like to know if you can help us find , or tell us where we can > > find information about these following subjects: > > > > * OS structure > > * Process-handling > > * CPU-handling > > * Memory-handling > > * Filesystem (implementation) > > * I/O structure > > * Security > > A good place to start would be the FreeBSD developer's handbook, this is > available at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/inde >x.html > > It is not written specifically about 4.4, which has been deprecated for > quite some time now, but focuses on FreeBSD in general, it should get you > well on your way there though. > > Will =2D-=20 Willie Viljoen =46reelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message