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From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
Subject: Re: Which DDJ articles for 386BSD?
In-Reply-To: michaelv@iastate.edu's message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:27:33 GMT
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>>>>> In article <michaelv.724544853@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

MLV> Would some nice soul kindly email me a list of all the dates for the
MLV> 386BSD series in Dr. Dobb's Journal so I can run to my friendly
MLV> University Library and get a copy of all the articles about the design
MLV> and building of 386BSD.  Any other really juicy articles by Bill
MLV> Jolitz would be appreciated, also.

Here's a list of the articles on 386BSD by William Frederick
Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz in Dr. Dobb's Journal.  Any
suggestions on what books or articles are essential to
understanding 386BSD would be welcome!  Leffler, the IBM AT
technical reference, and 80386 data sheets are mentioned in
the first article.  Any others?  Rich

  Jan. 91 Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach:
Designing the software specification.
  Sep. 91, Porting Unix to the 386: The Basic Kernel:
Multiprogramming and Multitasking, Part One.
  Oct. 91, Porting Unix to the 386: The Basic Kernel:
Multiprogramming and Multitasking, Part Two.
  Nov. 91, Porting Unix to the 386: The Basic Kernel: Device
Autoconfiguration.
  Feb. 92 Porting Unix to the 386: Device Drivers: Drivers
for the basic kernel.
  Mar. 92 Porting Unix to the 386: Device Drivers: Entering,
exiting, and masking processor interrupts.
  Apr. 92 Porting Unix to the 386: Device Drivers: Getting
into and out of interrupt routines.

Other books and references:

Crawford and Gelsinger. "Programming the 80386." Sybex, 1987.
IBM. "Technical Reference Guide Personal Computer AT." 19??.

Leffler, McKusick, Karels and Quarterman. "The Design and
Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System."  Addison-Wesley,
1989. isbn 0-201-06196-1.

Leffler and McKusick. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD
UNIX Operating System Answer Book."  isbn 0-201-54729-9.

"The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System"
can be ordered directly from Addison-Wesley with a credit card.
The toll-free number is 800-447-2226.