From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 12:16:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2371437B423 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from softweyr.com ([208.187.122.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17603; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:15:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39A2D2FA.46CCCA52@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:22:34 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fehr Cc: bliss-s@excite.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fehr wrote: > > I recommend reading "Modern Operating Systems" by Andrew S. Tannenbaum > (Prentice Hall). Though a bit old (1992, I think) it will give you most of > the information you want. The problem with Tannenbaum's book is that it doesn't cover any modern operating systems. Mr. Bliss, once you've finished your research, please write a replacement text that covers Mach (as a starting point), Chorus, Plan9, Spring, and Flux. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message