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From: Atle <trollet@skynet.be>
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Subject: NEWBIE Question
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:38:47 -0100
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Hello! I am more than a newbie, I don't know Beta at all. I am planning to implement a

	Task switcher for i386, that can support two-CPUs or more
	Device drivers for some interrupt driven PC devices

and some other stuff, but this is what I want to do now. My question is:

At this low level, is Beta as easy as C to work with?
Are there free ELF-compatible Beta-compilers?

If I later wanted to implement Beta myself, is the language spec available online?

What is the best (?!?) book for learning Beta with the above implementation task in mind?

Thanks in advance for a clear and complete reply,

Atle