Congratulations to David, Geoff, and Ted for getting chapters from their book out there for all of us to read. It is invaluable.
Some of you may be interested in knowing that I, too, am writing a Rotor book, though mine is a pedagogical textbook, and it has a distributed programming motivation. If you happen to be in academia, you might already be aware of my books about Win32 projects and Linux kernel projects. These books try to provide a general introduction to the topic (e.g., the entire Linux kernel), then provide a series of exercises for which there is code-level discussion that helps students to solve the exercise. For example, in the Linux book, an exercise is to add a system call to the kernel. The Rotor book has more discussion of SSCLI than the OS books (though not nearly as much as the book by David and friends). I think I am going to have half a dozen exercises, where background for the exercises will be a pretty detailed, directed discussion of the code. Anyway, if you are interested, you can preview the table of contents, some chapters, and exercises at http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~nutt/DPRS/ Feedback, comments, hints, etc. are greatly appreciated. Gary
