| We extend special thanks to Natc Lawson, who provided invaluable insight on the workings of the PC architecture and FreeBSD's interface to it. We also thank the following people who read and commented on nearly the entire book: Michael Schuster (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) and our Addison-Wesley reviewers Chris Cooper (Hewlett-Packard) and Robert Kitzberger (IBM). We thank the following people, all of whom read and commented on early drafts of various chapters of the book: Samy Al Bahra (Kerneled.com), Dorr H. Clark (Santa Clara University), Matthew Dillon (The DragonFly BSD Project), John Dyson, Andreas Gustafsson, Poul-Henning Kamp (The FreeBSD Project), David G. Lawrence (The FreeBSD Project), Samuel Leffler, M. Warner Losh (Timing Solutions), Andre Oppermann (Internet Business Solutions AG), David I. Parfitt (independent hacker), Doug Rabson (Qube Software Ltd.), Jeffrey Roberson (The FreeBSD Project), Soren Schmidt (FreeBSD senior developer), Ken Smith (University at Buffalo CSE Department), Gregory Sutter (Daemon News), Charles P. Wright (SUNY Stony Brook), and Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University). We are grateful to our editor, Peter Gordon, who had faith in our ability to get the book written despite several years of delays on our part and who accelerated the production when we finally had a completed manuscript. We thank all the professional people at Addison-Wesley who helped us bring the book to completion: managing editor John Fuller, editorial assistant Bernie Gaffney, production supervisor Elizabeth Ryan, and cover designer Chuti Prasertsith. We also thank the people at Stratford Publishing Services: manager of editorial services Kathy Glidden, copy editor Debbie Prato, and proofreader Hilary Farquhar. Finally we acknowledge the contributions of Jaap Akkerhuis, who designed the troff macros for the BSD books, and John Lasseter, who drew the original BSD daemon art used on the cover. This book was produced using James Clark's implementations of pic, tbl, eqn, and groff. The index was generated by awk scripts derived from indexing programs written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan [Bentley & Kernighan, 1986]. Most of the art was created with xfig. Figure placement and widow elimination were handled by the groff macros, but orphan elimination and production of even page bottoms had to be done by hand. We encourage readers to send us suggested improvements or comments about typographical or other errors found in the book; please send electronic mail to FreeBSDbook-bugs@McKusick.COM. |
