brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) (05/09/89)
I am interested to know what other Xinu users/developers are doing with Xinu? I know of two projects within NCR where Xinu is used or has been used (device controllers) but was curious to find out what others use Xinu for. Also, when does Xinu cease to be Xinu?? By this I mean, how far can you modify, expand, enhance etc the base Xinu code, yet still call it Xinu? I am considering using Xinu on a 286/386 based PC as the OS for a dedicated LAN Server. Xinu seems to be founded upon the "one address space, global variables" concept. If I start hacking on the base code to give it separate user/kernal address spaces, a decent file system, memory protection, virtual memory, etc, is it still Xinu? or is it Un*x!! Also, so that I don't re-invent the wheel, has Xinu already been made to run in protected mode on the 80286? If so, where is that code available from? If not, then after I do it, is there some Xinu archive that would like to have the code, so that someone else doesn't have to re-invent the proverbial wheel. Thanks, Brian. -- +-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ | Brian Onn | UUCP:..!{uunet!attcan, watmath!utai}!lsuc!ncrcan!brian | | NCR Canada Ltd. | INTERNET: Brian.Onn@Toronto.NCR.COM | +-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+