Hi Chris, Chris Peel wrote: > > Hello and apologies for the slightly off-topic nature of this post. > > I'm developing a message-passing architecture heavily based on the > BeOS model and I was wondering if anyone has any detailed information > about how the BeOS' architecture works. The Be Book (printed version) > is excellent but it's lacking a few useful diagrams and 'Programming > the BeOS' doesn't really go deep enough into the bones of the system. > > If anyone has any diagrams, notes, articles, etc. on the real guts of > the messaging system I would be very interested in them. The Art of BeOS Programming, by Shin-ya Koga, has a full chapter on messaging. Although the book is in Japanese, Google translate may be of help (or maybe not?). Here is an archive of the book... http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/ArtOfBeOSProgramming/ ...and you can find the specific chapter about messaging here: http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/ArtOfBeOSProgramming/chapter/chapter08.html#8 HTH, Jorge