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  <title>Purpose of this book</title>

  <para>This book describes the NetBSD Operating System internals.  The
  main idea behind it is to provide solid documentation for contributors
  that wish to develop extensions for NetBSD or want to improve its
  existing code.  Ideally, there should be no need to reverse-engineer
  the system's code in order to understand how something works.</para>

  <para>A lot of work is still required to finish this book: some
  chapters are not finished and some are not even started.  Those parts
  that are planned but which are still pending to do are already part of
  the book but are clearly marked as incomplete by using a
  <literal>XXX</literal> marker.</para>

  <para>This book is currently maintained by the NetBSD www team
  (<email>www@NetBSD.org</email>).  Corrections, suggestions and
  extensions should be sent to that address.</para>
</preface>
