comer@PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer) (05/26/88)
For those of you who are new to the list, here's the set of quotes that were deleted from the original Xinu book just as it went to press. The reason for deletion was that some of the authors refused to give world-wide rights for quotation because they had long-standing disputes with rival countries (think about Irish authors being quoted in Britian). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN VOL. I: THE XINU APPROACH Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview Our little systems have their day. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter 2: An Overview of the Machine and Run-Time Environment One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --Elbert Hubbard Chapter 3: List and Queue Manipulation As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list... --W. S. Gilbert Chapter 4: Scheduling and Context Switching What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. --Max Jacob Chapter 5: More Process Management When men willingly suspend fear, science flourishes. --anon Chapter 6: Process Coordination The future belongs to him who knows how to wait. --Russian Proverb Chapter 7: Message Passing The message of history is clear: the past lies before us. --Anon Chapter 8: Memory Management Memory is the ghost of experience. --Anon Chapter 9: Interrupt Processing The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. --Leonard Bernstein Chapter 10: Real-Time Clock Management We haven't the time to take our time. --Eugene Ionesco Chapter 11: Device Independent Input and Output We have been left so much to our own devices - after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. --Tom Stoppard" Chapter 12: An Example Device Driver" It's hard to find a good driver these days, one with character and style. -- Anon Chapter 13: System Initialization Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. -- Cyril Connolly Chapter 14: A Data Link Communication Driver Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected. -- G. K. Chesterton Chapter 15: High-Level Memory Management and Message Passing Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all fond trivial records. -- Shakespeare Chapter 16: Frame-Level Network Communication We never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them. -- The Koran Chapter 17: A Disk Driver For my purpose holds... To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter 18: File Systems Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. -- Katharine Whitehorn Chapter 19: Exception Handling and Support Routines I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 20: System Configuration No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. -- Publilius Syrus