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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Newbie question.
Date: 3 Jul 1993 21:35:15 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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References: <20v4bu$dfu@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> <MHW.93Jul2043302@barney.cs.brown.edu>
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In article <MHW.93Jul2043302@barney.cs.brown.edu> mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes:
>I strongly suggest buying the following book:
>
>The Design and Implemention of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System
>by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels
>and John S. Quarterman.
>
1st) THE BOOK IS REALLY GOOD
2nd) some of the interfaces described there have been outdated by the
4.4BSD work (partially contained in 386BSD)
3rd) a warning to all german readers: DO NOT OBTAIN THE GERMAN TRANS-
LATION! It's terrible. The translator didn't understand a bit of
what she's been writing about. Most of the more complicated parts
have to be retranslated into english (word by word) in order to
get understood. Really, though also from Addison-Wesley, a bad thing
of work.
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