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From: paulp@nic.cerf.net (Paul Phillips)
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Subject: Re: New Book on Unix Internals
Followup-To: comp.unix.internals,misc.books.technical
Date: 22 Nov 1995 03:00:00 GMT
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In article <48s3k8$l1p@engnews2.eng.sun.com> 
bonwick@cathy.eng.sun.com (Jeff Bonwick) writes:
>> "UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers"
>>         Uresh Vahalia
>>         Prentice Hall
>>         ISBN 0-13-101908-2
>
>[...] and it's evident from
>various comments and diagrams that the author truly *gets it*.

Since I don't have the book in front of me, this is little more
than a "me too", but I spent some time leafing through it in the
bookstore and it is extremely impressive.  This fills a real void
in the modern unix internals area; Magic Garden is good, but I
found Vahalia's approach much more accessible.

(Followups cleavered.)

 -PSP

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