comer@PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer) (05/11/88)
William, >> We would like to establish a teaching laboratory with some Sun-2 >> systems that are no longer being used for research work. I am >> not particularly familiar with your work, but understand that we >> would probably want to run version 6 for our operating system >> courses and version 7 for our distributed systems course. There >> is some question here whether either of these runs on Sun-2s. >> Can you send me information on what the hardware requirements are >> for Xinu? >> >> The machines that we will have available are Sun-2/170 systems, >> each with 4 megabytes of memory, each with a Xylogics 450 controller >> and Eagle disk drive. If you don't have a version that will run >> on Sun-2s perhaps you can provide me any thoughts you have re us >> trying to port a Sun-3 version. >> >> Thanks. >> >> William Howell >> Directory of Computer Services >> Department of Computer Science >> University of North Carolina >> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 >> 919-962-1759 >> howell@cs.unc.edu We've all but stopped shipping the SUN2 version, but we may still have it lying around. I'll have the librarian check. As for version 6 vs. version 7, we're pretty much using version 7 in both the operating system course and my networking course. Although there are minor differences, version 7 is almost an exact superset of version 6 (and it's a pain to have two different versions around). We tell the students that when it comes time to code, they have to use include files and not depend on constants and/or structure definitions in the book. The good news is that we have version 7 for the SUN3 in good shape, which will make it easy on you if you decide to port it back to the 2s. The only part not quite finished is a distributed odt/download/upload system that lets students download to an arbitrary backend machine from and arbitrary front end machine. That code is scheduled to be finished in 2 weeks (exams are over here...) There is an electronic mail list for exchange of questions and information (xinu-info@purdue.edu). I've forwarded a copy of this note to the list. To have your mail address or a local alias at your site added to the list, send a request to xinu-info-request@purdue.edu If you want more information, give me a call (317-494-6009) Regards, Doug
@ncrorltv.UUCP (03/25/91)
Please add my name to your mailing list for future information related to the usage and progress of XINU operating system. Right now I am eager to know the status of the new release of XINU scheduled in this quarter. If you have any information please send it to syed@ncrorl.orlando.ncr.com (407-333-8339) My Mailing Address: Syed Naseem NCR 3200 Lake Emma Rd. Lake Marry FL. 32746 Thanks.