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- From: hitz@netapp.com
- Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.054857.6882@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:48:57 GMT
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- In article <1jlgwJ#6PNbyC9ljB052jnDYX3BKLvj=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
- >I earned my wizard hat in late '83, early '84, administering a VAX 750 under
- >BSD 4.1 (the BSD nobody remembers...). As I recall, the Lions book (which
- >described V6) was considered historical even then. I don't think I'd
- >recommend it to aspiring newbies ten years later.
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- My advice is questionable (due to my lack of a wizard hat), but I
- recommend the Lions books highly. The UNIX kernel today is so large
- that few (if any) have time to read and understand it all. But you
- *can* read and undertand the 9000 lines in Lions. In my experience,
- understanding the simple way that something can be done often clarifies
- the more complicated current way.
-
- Dave Hitz hitz@netapp.com
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