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- From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
- Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
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- References: <1jlgwJ#6PNbyC9ljB052jnDYX3BKLvj=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> <1992Dec14.054857.6882@netcom.com> <1992Dec14.080551.12999@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:54:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.080551.12999@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.054857.6882@netcom.com> hitz@netapp.com writes:
- > 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.
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- Better still, get Linux or bsd386 (or is it 386bsd, anyway, the free one) and
- study it.
-
- Good stuff.
-
- Adam
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