Hello Alex!

> I don't have the book handy right now, but I think you are refering to 
> something like "The design of the Unix Operating System" (is there a 
> 4.3 in there?). It's a harcover book, black with the daemon on the 
> front. Authors are Leffler, McCusik (sp) and someone else...
> 
> It deals mainly with 4.3 and has a lot of specific stuff about
> the VAX architecture. Very useful if you want to learn OS design,
> but unfortunately not really up to date with 4.4. There is even
> an answer book paired up with it.

No, I'm referring to the 4.4BSD Manuals. There are five of them, each about 750
pages thick and costing $30 (whereas they charge as much as 60 DM for them here in
Germany).
There is a System Manager's Manual, two books for users and also two for programmers.

Cheerio, MB