new 4.3BSD UNIX internals book

[Ken Lee]

Well, kids, the long awaited "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD
UNIX Operating System", by Leffler, McKusick, Karels, and Quarterman, is
now out.  I got one at Computer Literacy a couple of days ago.

The level of detail is about the same in as the (System V oriented)
"The Design of the UNIX Operating System" by Bach.  This was apparently
intentional.  The authors of the BSD book didn't want to fight AT&T on
trade secret rights, so they didn't include any more information on the
AT&T part of BSD UNIX than was already published in the AT&T-blessed
Bach book.

While no book is perfect, I think this book is a "must have" for all
serious BSD UNIX programmers.  Much of the material is available nowhere
else in print.  This is especially true of the popular BSD socket and
networking implementation.  The mystical BSD process and memory-management
algorithms are also well described.

ISBN 0-201-06196-1, Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Enjoy.

Ken Lee
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Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.