From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 8:20:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969D437B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol.we.lc.ehu.es (sol [158.227.6.42]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA24291 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:20:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Borja Marcos Received: (from borjam@localhost) by sol.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA06321 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:20:03 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200008231520.RAA06321@sol.we.lc.ehu.es> Subject: Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer... To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 100 03:02:23 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <39A2D2FA.46CCCA52@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Aug 22, 0 01:22:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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. Anyway, it is an excellent theory book. And, once you have read it, you can read documents describing other OSs, like, for example, the articles describing Plan 9. "Modern operating Systems" also covers Amoeba, which is indeed a modern operating system. Plan 9 and Amoeba give you an excellent spectrum on the design of distributed operating systems; both are quite different, with different design goals. Borja. -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjamar@sarenet.es 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * borjam@well.com SPAIN * borjam@uninet.edu *********************************************************************** --- FreeBSD, turning PCs into workstations To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message