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In-Reply-To: <199510190044.RAA01437@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 18, 95 05:44:46 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > Is there any sort of documentation (besides the code) that lends a general
> > (to specific) explanation of the FreeBSD kernel design?  Or just kernel
> > design in general?
> > 
> > I am looking for anything from a full text all the way down to FAQ.

> 	Title:		"The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD
> 			 UNIX Operating System"

This book is pretty good.  You can tell that these guys have been around
the traps, and have a pretty good idea what it's all about.  Some parts are
a little Vax-centric and smug, but in context, that's quite forgivable 8)

> 	Title:		"The Magic Garden Explained"

This book is _very_ frustrating.  Aside from the inconsistencies in 
formatting and syntax, it wanders all over the place, varying from intense
and detailed to frustratingly vague.  I've never been able to get a good
flow up reading it 8(.   Having said that, it _does_ contain an awful lot
of very interesting information, and I've learnt a lot from it.
(Being Tandem employees, some of the low-level discussion is around the
MIPS R3000 architecture, which isn't as much fun as the Vax 8)

> 					Terry Lambert

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