[plug] Linux & Hardware

[James Elliott]

Still, it might throw some light on the general mystery of how a string of
"0"s and "1"s can make magical things happen on the screen

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Fountain" <derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Linux & Hardware


> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 14:21, Arie Hol wrote:
> > You should check out the books by Tannenbaum - I think they will give
you
> > all the information you require (and more).
>
> But be aware they are seriously dated. I don't know of anything he's
written
> in the last decade. "Modern Operating systems" might be a classic, but
it's
> hard to take a book seriously when it describes MSDOS as a modern
operating
> system. :o)
>
> -- 
> "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE
> ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched
gnome,
> they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
>
>