Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 09:34:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jolitz book cancelled? Message-ID: <19980704093453.U358@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807032055.PAA08761@bone.nectar.com>; from Jacques Vidrine on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 03:55:47PM -0500 References: <199807022218.RAA02787@bone.nectar.com> <19980703094238.T14070@freebie.lemis.com> <199807032055.PAA08761@bone.nectar.com>
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On Friday, 3 July 1998 at 15:55:47 -0500, Jacques Vidrine wrote: > On 3 July 1998 at 9:42, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> On Thursday, 2 July 1998 at 17:18:25 -0500, Jacques Vidrine wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was looking forward to Volume 2 of the Jolitz' ``Source Code >>> Secrets'' series, but it seems it has been cancelled. Does anyone >>> know about the details of this? i.e. I wonder if it has been >>> permanently cancelled, or put on hold, or what. >> >> I don't know anything about this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it >> would be permanent. The first book didn't get much of a welcome, and >> it describes in minute detail an obsolete BSD version (IIRC based on >> 4.3BSD Net/2, not 4.4BSD). I'd guess that the publisher was pretty >> disappointed in the sales. > > Yes, it was a port of 4.3BSD Net/2 to the 80386 (called > 386BSD). Sure. This is the ancestor of FreeBSD. FreeBSD (and NetBSD) grew out of personality conflicts with Bill Jolitz. > It was previously documented in a series of Dr. Dobb's Journal > articles. It was interesting to me as it focused on issues in > porting to the 386. I read the articles at the time, and I browsed through the book when I saw it at a bookshop. I didn't get the feeling that there was that much overlap. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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