How to teach OS

Liam J. Foy liamfoy at sepulcrum.org
Fri Mar 4 09:10:25 PST 2005


On Fri(04)/Mar/05 - , Zera William Holladay wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 justin at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I may be remembering this wrong, but doesn't the "Design and
> > Implementation of 4.4BSD" book have questions/exercises in it?  That may
> > be a good start.  I don't have a copy on hand to check.
> 
> Yes, but going to my instructor with an assignment from a book is one
> thing and going to her with a suggestion from a person who is actually
> developing an OS is another.  I could say, "Justin, who develops an open
> source operating system, believes that it is very useful to do X in order
> to learn how Y works."
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> -zh

Why dont you mention the names of the authors? They are both highly respected
developers.

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