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- From: haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
- Message-ID: <haley.722168782@husc11>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:26:22 GMT
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- mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) writes:
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-
- >What does it take for a man, er, person, to become a Unix Wizard ?
-
- >Which bibles should we study ? (after memorizing O'Rileys to become
- > an X Wizzie ?)
- K & R C, and anything release by ATT, then all the code released by
- BSD.
- You shoud know them by heart...
- >How many kernels (and which ones) we need to take apart and reassemble ?
- All of them.
- >Some doth say that the only way thou shall gain salvation is to
- >partake in the (sacrireligios) ceremony of rewriting Unix from
- >scratch.
- No, merely write a small working kernal by using
- cat > kmem
-
- >So, oh, mylord, how does a mortal become a Unix Wizard ?
- Seriously, time, and much study.
- Write programs, write device drivers, reconfigure your kernal 1000
- thousand times, to make a little faster or a little more efficient...
- Get a 386 box, and get 386BSD running on it, then go through the code
- for it until you understand how it all adds up.
- Then you will be a *novice* wizard :-)
- Or read the FAQ in comp.unix.wizards, and follow that view...
-
- >(next question: how does a newbie become a net.personality ?)
- Have an answer for everything, either useful or useless...
- >(ade barkah)
- >--
- >Internet : mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (NeXT Mailable)
- >CompuServe: 74160,3404
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- =The author of this letter is a fabulously intelligent person and is very =
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