Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 15:55:47 -0500 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jolitz book cancelled? Message-ID: <199807032055.PAA08761@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <19980703094238.T14070@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199807022218.RAA02787@bone.nectar.com> <19980703094238.T14070@freebie.lemis.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Yes, it was a port of 4.3BSD Net/2 to the 80386 (called 386BSD). It was previously documented in a series of Dr. Dobb's Journal articles. It was interesting to me as it focused on issues in porting to the 386. Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> On 3 July 1998 at 9:42, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 2 July 1998 at 17:18:25 -0500, Jacques Vidrine wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was looking forward to Volume 2 of the Jolitz' ``Source Code > > Secrets'' series, but it seems it has been cancelled. Does anyone > > know about the details of this? i.e. I wonder if it has been > > permanently cancelled, or put on hold, or what. > > I don't know anything about this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it > would be permanent. The first book didn't get much of a welcome, and > it describes in minute detail an obsolete BSD version (IIRC based on > 4.3BSD Net/2, not 4.4BSD). I'd guess that the publisher was pretty > disappointed in the sales. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNZ1FUzeRhT8JRySpAQGpjgQAyS9BUT17HLSvq4wLgRQMs1NLYXJ9ZsPv Zgm3AXbQkN3y2CadhzAgkE1yVPcZpnPPpVsSCvMYbvnBFEcAifZOdHKDQ7BS6Dz8 hQljc08YWHvlM+qazP8Qp6iFSV0yWmjo/0tU+uC/oL4ka7cjtAj+F4/qGMPD4Ldn FmmaYhlGlTM= =eX9m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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