From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <713bec3c9b204453bdfc05e7e1158702@coraid.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? From: Brantley Coile Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:06:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5976eec-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I've several texts on OS that are pretty good for undergrad class, but is there an equivalent to Knuth's `Art of Computer Programming' or the second Dragon book? Seems that a lot of wasted effort could be avoided by having a good servey of the ideas and references to previous work. Bell & Newell, and Blaauw & Brooks, did this for Architectures. A journey thru the Dragon book's bibliography is like a time machine to learn from the past.