hastings@sequoia.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Hastings) (03/20/89)
Yesterday I saw a copy of Comer's XINU (vol. 1) book in the Macintosh section at Computer Literacy. It was a special "Macintosh Edition," and included an order-form for Macintosh diskettes ($80/set) containing the Xinu OS for the Macintosh. I believe that Xinu was designed to teach operating systems principles, something along the lines of Andy Tanenbaum's Minix. But before I put out $44 for the book and $80 for the disks, I want to know if anyone has had any experience with it. Xinu might turn out to be a fun little OS to have as long as the source is included and the cross- compilation procedure is not too slow (I'm assuming it runs as an alternate native OS, not piggybacked on top of MacOS). Thanks, Mark Hastings ..!ucbvax!ernie!hastings hastings@ernie.berkeley.edu