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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:09:14 -0700</LI>
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On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 06:44:01 +0200
Asmodai <Jeroen> wrote:
> When developing a Multi-User Environment, do you find knowledge of
> how operating systems work handy?
"Extremely useful," would probably be the term I'd use. Its not
essential as the design challenges and considerations of OS'es and
server s and applications overlap significantly. That said, in my
early days I did a lot of reading of Tanenbaum's Minix books to good
effect.
> I mean, as far as I see it now, a lot of status flags, Inter Proces
> Communication and user interoperability resembles the way modern
> operating systems work.
Bingo, as well as state preservation, process model, scheduling,
deadlock prevention, process synchonisation, event models, etc.
> I am currently delving into the book Modern Operating Systems 2nd
> Ed. by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and find many similiarities between mud
> operations and Operating Systems. Any thoughts on this matter?
Utterly agreed. FWLIW the early days of Shades saw it as an OS
command shell as versus an application. He didn't *quite* replace the
OS kernel and supports, but got close to it..
> Also, which books are recommended to start with network programming,
> preferably TCP/IP based and for C/C++.
I like the Steven's TCP/IP books, but also hear good things about
Comer's (which I haven't looked at in detail). There are also a
variety of pretty good web sites on the area (do a search on the
MUD-Dev archives, I psoted an extensive list recently).
On the C/C++ side it really depends on where you are coming from. I
start with K&R for C and went straight to Strousup for C++ (not a
generally recommended route), so can't comment terribly well there --
tho I do like Pohl's C++ books.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00151" HREF="msg00151.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Monthly FAQ Posting</A></strong>,
s001gmu <a href="mailto:s001gmu#nova,wright.edu">s001gmu#nova,wright.edu</a>, Fri 10 Jul 1998, 16:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00703" HREF="msg00703.html">[MUD-Dev] Monthly FAQ Posting</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00072" HREF="msg00072.html">[MUD-Dev] An Introduction</A></strong>,
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <a href="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl">asmodai#wxs,nl</a>, Wed 08 Jul 1998, 04:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00325" HREF="msg00325.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 00:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00327" HREF="msg00327.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 01:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00328" HREF="msg00328.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 02:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00800" HREF="msg00800.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Sat 22 Aug 1998, 01:52 GMT
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