From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 3 13:57:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17446 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [204.27.67.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17428 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@bone.nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (localhost.communique.net [127.0.0.1]) by bone.nectar.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA08761; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 15:55:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807032055.PAA08761@bone.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <19980703094238.T14070@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199807022218.RAA02787@bone.nectar.com> <19980703094238.T14070@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Jolitz book cancelled? To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 15:55:47 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----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 On 3 July 1998 at 9:42, Greg Lehey 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