On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:54:01AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > In any case, I hope I did indicate that I have less experience than many > > list posters with threads (although I hope to gain at least a bit more > > when I take an operating systems course at my uni as soon as next fall). > > If anything I said in the previous paragraph is rubbish, I'm quite > > willing to believe it. > > For those without the benefit of a University course, I would suggest picking > up one of the oldest classical texts on OS design principles and practice, > though I suggest reading it with a critical eye: > > Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Second Edition > Tannebaum, A. S. & Woodhull, A. S. > (Prentice Hall, 1997) According to the course syllabus for this year's edition of the course, there is a "draft of the course textbook" available online, and they recommend but don't require another book by Tanenbaum (whose name they spell with no doubled N), which is _Modern Operating Systems_, Second Edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2001. Some or all of the course textbook (written by the professor, no less) is online, but I'm not going to post a link on this mailing list because I don't know if the professor wants it to be generally available to the world at large. (If he doesn't want that, then he especially wouldn't want a link that's permanently and publically archived on many sites and quite findable via Google.) It's supposed to be a really intense course, wherein you write threads implementations, a simple VFS, a simple filesystem to work with the VFS, etc., and it's amazingly intense if you take the additional "half-credit" lab section where you write a large portion of a simplified *NIX-like OS called Weenix. ;-) Here's to hoping I have my study skills refined by then.... - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org
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