From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Which thing was harder for u to grasp relating Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:58:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152644301.12989.35.camel@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40607111152p228bc378i7b34b5f24baa036f@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:52 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote:
> I´m writing a book for the introductory course in OS at urjc, that
> we teach using Plan 9. Most of it is a a lot of generic introductory
> stuff about the system.
>
> I´d love to know the top-10 of "hard-to-get" concepts about the system,
> specially for new comers,
> to try to cover them.
If you mean implementation concepts, then my list would
definitely include:
0. the fact that devmnt.c is just that -- another dev*
and how it functions.
1. waserror & co.
2. devdraw and how it multiplex everything internally
without much help from rio.
Thanks,
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 18:52 Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-11 18:55 ` Rob Pike
2006-07-11 19:03 ` jmk
2006-07-11 18:58 ` Roman Shaposhnik [this message]
2006-07-11 20:18 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-11 20:29 ` Corey
2006-07-11 20:40 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-12 3:49 ` Jack Johnson
2006-07-12 11:09 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-12 14:40 ` Richard Bilson
2006-07-12 16:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-12 16:41 ` csant
2006-07-12 18:45 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 4:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-07-13 5:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-11 21:50 ` David Leimbach
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