rscott@eta.unix.ETA.COM (Rich Scott) (02/03/89)
For those of you who'd like to get a copy of "The Design
and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System" by Karels,
McKusick, et al, the Computer Literacy bookstore(s) in Silicon Valley
have them in stock, and will take phone orders. For that matter, they
have just about any Computer Science book (currently in print) in stock.
The stores accept all major credit cards, and will ship via UPS
for a few dollars more (takes 3-4 days to get anywhere in the U.S.)
or will Federal Express it if you're in a hurry. I paid a total of
$39.50 for mine, using UPS. Their phone numbers are:
San Jose, 2590 N. First at Trimble
(408) 435-1118
Santa Clara, 5201 Great America Pkwy
(408) 562-5799
Sunnyvale, 520 Lawrence Expwy (next to Togo's)
(408) 730-9955
I have no connection with Computer Literacy, except as a very
satisfied customer.
BTW, the BSD book is very, very good. IMHO, it's much better
written (whatever happened to readability in C.S. books?) than
the Bach book.
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eta systems, st. paul, mn uucp: {amdahl,rutgers}!bungia!eta!rscott
"I don't have any use for bodyguards, but I do have a specific use
for two highly trained certified public accountants." - Elvis Presleylm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) (02/03/89)
In article <2214@eta.unix.ETA.COM> rscott@eta.unix.ETA.COM (Rich Scott) writes:
$ BTW, the BSD book is very, very good. IMHO, it's much better
$written (whatever happened to readability in C.S. books?) than
$the Bach book.
$
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$rich scott (612) 642 -8949 internet: rscott@diamond.unix.eta.com
$eta systems, st. paul, mn uucp: {amdahl,rutgers}!bungia!eta!rscott
Umm, as a kernel hack that has read both books I'd like to throw in my
two cents and say I think the Bach book is better. *My needs* and use for
these sorts of books are:
I'm trying to figure out some some concept, say the line discipline,
that is documented (pretty much) only by the code. With the Bach book,
I turn to the section on terminal drivers and quickly find diagrams that
show the big picture and code fragments that show greater detail but not
so much as to lose the forest for the trees.
With the BSD book it requires more reading and more distilling on my
part to get the same information.
If your needs are similar, I'd reccommend starting with Bach and moving to the
BSD book after you understand what Bach said. I'm not saying that the BSD
book is bad, just that the Bach book is quite good and that I personally think
that it compares favourably to the BSD book.
Larry McVoy, Lachman Associates. My opinions are that.