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- From: bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.080551.12999@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <722720299.8269@minster.york.ac.uk> <1jlgwJ#6PNbyC9ljB052jnDYX3BKLvj=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> <1992Dec14.054857.6882@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:05:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.054857.6882@netcom.com> hitz@netapp.com writes:
- >In article <1jlgwJ#6PNbyC9ljB052jnDYX3BKLvj=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
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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.
-
- Unfortunately, the Lions books hasn't been legally available in quite
- some time (over a decade I think). If you want to start with something
- small and Unix-like, I'ld suggest getting a copy of Minix and the book that
- goes with it. It's legally available and is probably as similar to modern
- Unix kernels as the V6 kernel described in the Lions books anyway.
-
- Bill Bogstad
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