sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Books from SunSoft Press SunFLASH Vol 62 #7 February 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.07 Books from SunSoft Press Book: SOLARIS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPER'S GUIDE Book: MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES: Book: SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE Selected other SunSoft Press books Who is 'SUNSOFT PRESS' ? Online Book Catalog (send email to sunsoftpress@Sun.com) Order Information (218 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Book: SOLARIS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPER'S GUIDE by Bill Tuthill Published by SunSoft Press/PTR Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-031063-9 (paperback) 216 pages; $30 US suggested list The SOLARIS(R) INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPER'S GUIDE is written for software developers and business managers interested in creating global applications that run on the Solaris environment for either SPARC(R) or x86 platforms. The book begins with a marketing overview, and subsequent chapters provide detailed instructions on how to develop software with the SunOS(TM) system libraries and the OpenWindows(TM) desktop environment. Topics covered include: -Cultural differences and how programmers can deal with them -Graphical user interface design with the X Window System and its toolkits OLIT and XView(TM) -The DevGuide interface generator -Numerous C code examples -How to translate software -Writing translatable documentation -International standards, including Unicode -Future considerations, for example, Common Desktop Environment and Motif(R) -Linguistic overview of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Solaris Special guidelines are given for major language markets around the world, including multibyte Asian languages and key European languages. Detailed appendices cover language and territory names, SPARC and x86 keyboard layouts, and provide a bibliography and glossary. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Book : MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES: A technical survey of Multiprocessor/Multithreaded Systems using SPARC, Multi-level Bus Architectures and Solaris (SunOS) by Ben Catanzaro Published by SunSoft Press/PTR Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-089137-1 550 pages; $42 US suggested list This book is the first of its kind to bring together in one volume a coherent description of the elements that provide for the design and development of multiprocessor systems from Sun Microsystems, Inc. It includes new technology that integrates packet-switched buses and multithreading techniques in the implementation of multiprocessor systems. MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES can serve as a reference text for design engineers as well as a hands-on design guide to multiprocessor systems that provides both hardware and software engineers with a coherent understanding of the problems and solutions to multiprocessor system design. Topics covered include: . Reviews design considerations associated with multiprocessor systems and presents practical solutions . Provides an indepth study on the Scalable Processor ARChitecture (SPARC) and details the various SPARC implementations . Introduces and details various multi-level bus architectures including MBus (a processor-level interconnect bus) and XBus/XDBus (packet switched buses) . Discusses the use of the SPARC MPSAS Behavioral Simulator to model SPARC multiprocessor systems with many design examples . Introduces and details components of the Solaris/SunOS multithreaded architecture such as threads, lightweight processes, synchronization, scheduling, preemption, real-time facilities, and programming . Examines several multiprocessor system implementations by highlighting tightly coupled, shared-memory model architectures using multi-level bus implementations such as MBus and XDBus . Provides an MBus Interface Specification and Design Guide that conveys significant aspects of designing MBus modules ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Book: SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE by Janice Winsor Published by SunSoft Press/Ziff-Davis Press ISBN 1-56276-131-5 477 pages; $29.95 US suggested list price This companion volume to the Solaris System Administrator's Guide covers more advanced Solaris 2.x system administration tasks in the same practical, step-by-step, task-oriented style for which the first book was applauded. It is ideal for system administrators who are experienced with day-to-day system maintenance and who need to add system components, improve service access, or automate routine tasks. Topics covered include: -Setting up a mail service or revising an existing one -Understanding the NIS+ naming service environment and adding a client system in an existing NIS+ environment -Planning for automounting service and administering the automounter configuration files -Using the Service Access Facility (SAF) to set up access to printers, modems, and terminals -Installing and making available third-party application software -Writing shell scripts to automate routine tasks Also included are appendices on Solaris 2.2 Volume Management and Solaris 2.3 Serial Port Manager. A glossary of system administration terms completes this volume. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Selected other SunSoft Press books SOLARIS PORTING GUIDE by SunSoft ISV Engineering 790pp; $49 US (includes a diskette) ISBN 013-030396-8 ALL ABOUT ADMINISTERING NIS+ by Rick Ramsey 290pp; $35 US ISBN 013-068800-2 SOLARIS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE by Janice Winsor 288pp; $29.95 US ISBN 1-56276-080-7 GUIDE TO SOLARIS by John Pew 625pp; $34.95 US ISBN 1-56276-087-4 THE TOOLTALK SERVICE: AN INTER-OPERABILITY SOLUTION 349pp; $30 US ISBN 013-088717-X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Who is 'SUNSOFT PRESS' ? SunSoft Press is the publishing group within Sun that publishes retail books on Sun products and technologies for developers, system administrators, and end users. SunSoft Press co-publishes these books with Ziff-Davis Press (for general programmer books) and with the Professional/Technical/Reference (PTR) division of Prentice Hall (for developer books and selected documentation). 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