[comp.os.xinu] The Xinu book ...

JGROVER@MAINE.BITNET (John Grover) (08/25/89)

I saw somewhere recently (perhaps in a Dr. Dobbs) an article which
mentioned and lifted some algorithms from a book about the Xinu
"approach" - which is about all I remember of the title. I remember
nothing of the author. (I did remember this stuff long enough to
check out that our library here does have it - but alas, memory
is so fleeting...)

Can anybody help me out?


John Grover
University of Maine System

cliff@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus) (08/27/89)

There are actually two books now  -- I think a third is on the way...?

"Operating System Design - The XINU Approach"
 by Douglas Comer
 (Prentice-Hall c 1984   ISBN 0-13-637539-1)

"Operating System Design - Volume II Internetworking with XINU"
 by Douglas Comer
 (Prentice-Hall c 1987   ISBN 0-13-637414-X)

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cdurrett@cup.portal.com (chuck m durrett) (08/27/89)

Operating System Design
The Xinu Approach
 
by Douglas Comer

Prentice-Hall  ISBN 0-13-637539-1

As an aside, I heard the Electronic Data Systems was building a database
machine and basing its OS on Xinu.

Douglas's book is a very accessible tutorial on OSs - just packed with
source code.  I've dipped into it now and then to, ahem, see how Xinu
does it.

                                             -c-

walrus@dasys1.UUCP (David Filip) (09/11/89)

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