From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 22 13:56:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA28832 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA28826 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (tc-if2-6.ida.net [208.141.171.63]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA00523 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:56:37 -0700 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:56:02 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Book Club Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was intrigued by a recent Godzilla vs. Megara battle (well, actually it was a three-way battle in which Mothra also showed up) about boot code strategies. I could barely understand what was being said, but Terry Lambert did make some interesting book recommendations: (1) The Undocumented PC by Frank van Gilluwe, and (2) Protected Mode Software Architecture by Tom Shanley. Well, I went out and bought these books. My opinion is that Gilluwe's book is solid but Shanley's is a little low denisity (I might return it). Any other recommendations? Charles Mott