awesome, thanks. I'll check. wasn't aware prentice had accessible books. On Nov 8, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Varun Khosla wrote:
You can get it from prentis hall. the book is in .chm format (The most accessible of formats I find, as you can quickly navigate around the content). You can also download it from pdfchm.com if you have an account. On 11/6/09, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello, I appriciate the title; is there an accessible copy ov this book sold somewhere? On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Varun Khosla wrote:Hi Tyler, You can try operating system design and implementation by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull. The book is (as far as I know) theonly one that discusses os concepts with code examples implemented ina real os called Minix. You can go to www.minix3.org for the source code and installation iso for minix os. I don't know of any screenreader for minix yet, but as it supports many APIs and is made similarto that of unix, porting one to minix shouldn't be dificult.P.S. If you get to know additional interesting information/tools that may be helpful in this regard, do post to the list - I'm also studyingthis subject in the current cem. ----- Varun On 11/3/09, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:hello laura, I have a pretty good understanding on lists and queues and such. My goal now is to learn more about the inner workings; perhaps by testinga os and making changes as I learn more to speed it up and improvingperformance. If I can find the books, it would give me a nice introduction and show me what I don't know so I can learn that, and teach me along the way. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:13 PM, qubit wrote:Hi Ty -- Perhaps you could check what textbooks are currently used at your local college or university for a class on these subjects. But before tackling subjects of this magnitude you should really have a very good understanding of data structures and objects -- what they are and how to implement them in your favorite language. I think you already have some exposure to different types of languages fromthe various projects you have tinkered on, and looking at the fruitbasket samples.But when you get into OS and compiler construction, you really needa good grounding of experience with the basics.The only thing about this that has changed since I was in school inthe 80s is that OO programming has emerged in a big way. But when you are talking about actually writing a little operating system, you are talking about low level details and data manipulation below the level of objects. Hence the old fashioned constructs like stacks and queues and locks are important. Sorry I'm not much more help. You probably noticed on program-l the note that safari books have suddenlybecome inaccessible to persons using screen readers. And they don'tsound promising about fixing it. Perhaps you should join in the protest to get a blind friendly site back. Happy hacking. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: looking for books... still Hello, Previously I wrote in asking about some books on OS and compiler design; I still have yet to find anything. I did a bit of searching onbookshare but didn't find anything; I would just pay the $50 for thesubscription for those. Is there any other way I could find what I need? Help would really be appriciated. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Varun __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Varun __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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