"Scheduling while atomic"

[walt]

Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Erik Wikström wrote:
>> I would recommend that you find yourself a book about operating
>> systems in general and read through, then you'll get at least an
>> overview of what the different parts do, how they work together and
>> how they work. After that, if you still want to learn more, you can
>> get The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.
>> While FreeBSD is quite different from DF in many places it still gives
>> a deeper understanding of many of the common concepts.
> 
> A nice introduction to Operating Systems was always
> 
> ftp://ftp.cs.uky.edu/cs/manuscripts/vade.mecum.2.pdf
> 
> Beware, it's pretty dated. But for understanding some basic concepts
> it's probably still good enough.

It looks very interesting, thanks.  Speaking of dated, I recently
found my copy of Tanenbaum which is copyright 1987 -- and still
(mostly) unread.  I've put it just outside my bathroom where I can
now grab it at regular intervals :o)