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- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:17:07 GMT
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- haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:
- : mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) writes:
- :
- :
- : >What does it take for a man, er, person, to 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 :-)
-
- I bought BSDI's release with exactly the intention of going through
- the code. I expect that if I spend a couple of hours a week (about
- all I can spare), I should be getting real good at this just before
- I sign up for Social Security :-).
-
- Seriously, it's too much to start from "boot" and follow it on
- through. Theoretically possible, but practically... not.
-
- I have bought and read a lot of Unix books. The most helpful so far
- was Bach's "Design of the Unix OS". But it isn't exactly a roadmap
- to the source code.
-
- Can anyone recommend any other books?
-
- Tony apl@world.std.com
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