evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman) (11/01/87)
Don't mean to be a drag, but could someone enlighten me as to what exactly 'xinu' is? I'm aware of the Mt. Xinu UNIX distribution, but it's hard to believe that Purdue is distributing this for Sun 3's at the cost of only $100. Please reply by e-mail. Thanks. Evan Bauman Univ. of Notre Dame ..!iuvax!ndcheg!evan ndcheg!evan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
comer@PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer) (11/01/87)
Xinu is a small, elegant operating system described in a 2-volume set of textbooks by Douglas Comer: Opeating System Design (Vol I) The Xinu Approach Prentice Hall, 1984 Operating System Design (Vol II) Internetworking with Xinu Prentice Hall, 1987 Among the features are: hierarchical design, rich functionality, novel implementations of system components, and implementation in C that makes it portable. Although Xinu contains many ideas found in UNIX, it is definitely NOT compatible in any sense. Doug