[comp.sys.amiga] Xinu

ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White) (10/31/87)

   I am thinking of porting Xinu to the Amiga sometime in the next year or
so.  I have spoken with Douglas Comer about obtaining a copy of the source
that I can download and he dosen't have one.  He does. however, have one
for the Mac, but wants $200 dollars for a magtape and 2 Mac disks.
   Since I don't have the $200 for an online copy of published code for
another computer, I am wondering if anyone out there has either ported
it to the Amiga or has a copy already on Amiga disks.
   I recognize that Xinu would actually be a step backwards from the
Amiga operating system (AmigaDOS and intuition) as it would not use any
of the nice graphics, but I am interested in playing with some extensive
modifications to it.

   Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

-- Pat White
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spietrow@atlas.UUCP (11/04/87)

in article <1424@s.cc.purdue.edu>, ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White) says:
> 
> 
>    I am thinking of porting Xinu to the Amiga sometime in the next year or
> so.  I have spoken with Douglas Comer about obtaining a copy of the source
> that I can download and he dosen't have one.  He does. however, have one
> for the Mac, but wants $200 dollars for a magtape and 2 Mac disks.

That seems to be a bit steep.  Will that source contain modifications to
XINU as outlined in Comer's second book?  

Surely there is online source SOMEwhere at Purdue.  Comer's lab course for
CS503 used to have XINU source to mess with, didn't it?  You should be able to 
get it that way.  Does he want to charge for putting it online, or for the 
source itself?


Steve Pietrowicz
Former CS 503 student, now doing bigger and better things  ;-)
PS.  Don't send e-mail to this address.  This is my last day of work at Gould