[PLUG] An Idea

[Matt Wallace]

I'd definitely be into that.. I think it's a great idea.. I'll have to
check on our fundage situation, but ACM might be willing to purchase a
couple of copies of either book for the group.. 

Matt

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Dave Jacoby wrote:

> OK, we have PHYS 112 every monday night, and we intend to use it,
> at best, every other monday night, right?
> 
> I just got a copy of Lions' Commentary on UNIX, and when looking
> though it last night, it struck me: this could be a thing for group
> study. I know that Coriolis has releaseda similar book (albiet much
> larger) on the Linux source code. 
> 
> I figure that either one would be good to learn how an OS really
> works. I have Lions, and the source is under 9100 lines of code,
> while the Linux code is fairly massive (of the  575 pages of that
> book, more than 400 is pure source). 
> 
> Barnes & Noble has the Linux book, and it didn't take long to
> get the Lions' book. This seems like a good thing to do with the
> spare mondays, and we can be sure to go slowly enough that interested
> people who have heavy classloads don't have yet another huge time
> requirement. 
> 
> As my wife says, "Oprah has a book club, so this idea can't be too
> silly."
> 
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