[comp.os.xinu] Windowing interface for PC-XINU?

sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) (01/01/91)

I've been tinkering with PC-XINU for some time now.  An interesting
project would be to expand the windowing routines  outlined in the
PC edition book.  Support for overlapping windows, large virtual screen,
mouse support, widget sets (buttons, menu bars, pull down menus, 
editable fields, scrollable views, scroll bars, etc...) would make a
nice interface.  Kept character-based, windowing operations would
be lightning fast (and easier to implement.)

Does such a thing already exist?

Comments, anyone?

cheng@EE.ROCHESTER.EDU (Bruce Cheng) (01/01/91)

That sounds interesting.  If you can use pc characters set also, it can 
be really nice. (something like Turbo C IDE (NEW) )

Wait till I buy the PC version of XINU, I maybe interested in trying something like that.

So far I only have programmed some XINU stuff on a point of sales terminal.
Can anyone tell me the cheapest place to buy XINU for PC? Mail order company?

thanks
-Bruce

berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) (01/01/91)

cheng@EE.ROCHESTER.EDU (Bruce Cheng) writes:

  blah... blah... blah...

>Can anyone tell me the cheapest place to buy XINU for PC? Mail order company?

  Well, for $80, you can write to ...

		Book Distribution Center
                      PRENTICE HALL
		Route 59 at Brook Hill Drive
		West Nyack, New York 10995

	and request "PC-XINU Diskettes to accompany
                     _OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN-THE XINU APPROACH -
                               PC EDITION VOLUME I_ (63827-0)"

				$79.95 + s.t.
                            ( ? Book included ? )

  Or buy the book for $45 and type in the code yourself, like me (phew!).


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