[comp.os.xinu] New volume of XINU book?

philk@tictoc.cis.ohio-state.edu (Phillip E Krueger) (06/29/90)

We're using vols. I and II of "Operating System Design:  The XINU approach"
for two fairly popular lab-oriented O.S. courses.  Is there a new volume in
the series that covers the virtual memory system contained in XINU version 8?
Also, is there any plan to come out with Sun-3 versions of the books?

Thanks,
  -- Phil

ritchie@dssmv2.mpr.ca (Stuart Ritchie) (07/04/90)

In article <81762@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <philk@tictoc.cis.ohio-state.edu.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>We're using vols. I and II of "Operating System Design:  The XINU approach"
>for two fairly popular lab-oriented O.S. courses.  Is there a new volume in
>the series that covers the virtual memory system contained in XINU version 8?
>Also, is there any plan to come out with Sun-3 versions of the books?
>
>Thanks,
>  -- Phil

XINU with virtual memory?!  What a concept!  Does anyone know which
CPU's are currently supported?

---
Stu

comer@CS.PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer) (07/04/90)

We currently have version 8 running on Sun 3s and Microvaxen, and we're doing
a port to the DECstation 3100 (but Digital hasn't told us yet whether we can
release it).  We will put together a beta release (i.e. a snapshot) of the
VM code this summer.

As for books, the answer is "maybe" (I'm just too busy these days to get the
time required).

Cheers,
Doug

news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) (07/06/90)

In article <9007041251.AA29589@merlin.cs.purdue.edu> comer@CS.PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer) writes:
>We currently have version 8 running on Sun 3s and Microvaxen, and we're doing

Will version 8 work on an OLD MicroVax 1 with 2 meg of RAM and a 40meg drive?
I need to do something with this thing and my boss thinks the words
"boat anchor" sound pretty good right now ;-).

	brian