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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel Books - please suggest
Date: 3 Dec 93 00:07:03 GMT
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vax@dumbo.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes:


>I am looking for books on 386BSD-like kernels which will educate me about the
>386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD kernels which I use, and allow me to fix problems with
>them, if not help the community at large.

I would think that the following one, given that it's specifically
about the 4.3 BSD kernel which the 386BSD kernel is derived from,
woudl be the most help:

TITLE:       The Design and implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX operating
               system / by Samuel J. Leffler ... [et al.].
NAMES:       Leffler, Samuel J.
CALL NUMBER: QA 76.76 O63 D474 1989
SOURCE:      Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1989.
DESCRIPTION: xxii, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SERIES:      Addison-Wesley series in computer science.
SUBJECTS:    UNIX (Computer file)
NOTES:       Includes bibliographies and index.

cjs
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