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RE: Internals - Was Oracle replication book

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:02:23 -0800
Message-Id: <1078203743.11042.10146.camel@poirot>


3. Nicklaus Wirth

Reminds of an old joke that was very biased toward C and against Pascal, and relies on the fact that Americans generally mangle his name.

It seems that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.

Jared

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 06:14, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:
> I still have
> 1. Maurice Bach
> 2. Andrew Tannenbaum
> 3. Nicklaus Wirth
> 4. Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie
> 5. Kunth 3 volumns (pre-beta PDF of 4th is on my HD)
> 6. Aho & Ullman
>
> on my desk ... these are must-haves ... for me.
>
> Raj
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:33 PM
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>
>
> There are several. The best of all is
>
> Kirk M. McKusick & comp: Design And Implementation of 4.3 BSD.
> Yes, it's right, it's 4.3, not 4.4, because the latter is too
> detailed and not as well written as the 4.3 book.
> Uresh Vahalia: Unix Internals, The New Frontier.
> David Rusling: The Linux Kernel (E-book, a little bit old, but still great
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html)
>
> Maurice Bach: Design of the Unix OS
> Andrew Tannenbaum: Modern Operating System
> Harvey Deitel: An Introduction to Operating Systems (1990 edition,
> I haven't seen the 2003
> one)
> Bruce Ellis: Hitchiker's Guide to VMS (Excellent book!!!)
> Nicklaus Wirth: Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs (This is an ancient
> book, but was a great
> introduction to
> B-trees. People are
> always fond of their
> college books)
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