31 Jan
2002
31 Jan
'02
5 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:18:06AM +0200, Lauri Aarnio wrote:
Have you considered using Tanenbaum's Minix as a
reference ?
Funnily enough - no. Which was a tad daft as I have a copy
of the original Tanenbaum book on a shelf about 2 feet above
the monitor.... :-) sheepish grin
<snipped relevant Minix stuff>
It wasn't as simple as it sounds, mostly because
the original
documents (Intel databooks) were misleading, contained lots of
errors and also otherwise hard to read (bits of information evenly
distributed around the book...). The books may or may not be better
now, but in any case, get a working reference implementation.
I was caught out on the Intel databooks a few years ago, I dread
returning...
:-)
Paul