01/17   Stop nuking the motd.  I am looking for for any materials on
        OS and kernel architecture--preferably something online like
        course lecture notes or handouts, doesn't matter how theoretical
        or practical.  I have a friend who's interested in Unix (and
        other) OS design, and am hoping one of you folks can maybe
        give me some pointers in this direction.  -John
        \_ It's not online but The Design and Implementation of 4.4
           BSD is supposed to be a good book. For online papers you
           can do searches at http://www.acm.org/dl and hunt down
           the actual PDF yourself.
           \_ Thank you!  Duly passed on.  -John
           \_ I saw this book listed as req'd for 162.  Are they using BSD
              for projects or are they still with NachOS?

              \_ Was that this semester? bh taught it one semester with
                 BSD, and the book was required then. AFAIK, they haven't
                 done that again since. -bz
                 \_ From everything I've heard, it's *REALLY* unlikely that
                    they'll ever do it again...    -mice
        \_ if they want any more current stuff, check out papers online
           for spin-os (u washington) and exokernel (mit).
        \_ For practical, there's a new Solaris Kernel Internals book out
           from SunSoft press that gives excellent descriptions of Solaris's
           VM, filesystems, etc.  (Say what you want - Sun must have done
           something right, since even Linux has modeled parts of their kernel
           on Sun's work.)
           \_ Who is the author?
                \_ Mauro & McDougall
           \_ "Even Linux."  Are you trolling?
                \_ No one trolls the motd.  Are *you* trolling?
           \_ Linux's VM sucks big donkey dick
              \_ Well, there's a very persuasive argument.
              \_ Probably cuz you booted up without a filesystem.
                        \_ It was a linux box.  I didn't need a filesystem.
                           I store my files on something stable.