4 Dec
2019
4 Dec
'19
11:58 p.m.
We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he was one of my Comp Sci
lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name
in the back).
-- Dave
5 Dec
5 Dec
4:16 a.m.
He is a hero. His notes on early Unix made it understandable to me.
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with his XINU
books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is not Unix but
he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his books. I give him
credit for my desire to have code be really simple and self explanatory.
I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do you think?
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:58:42AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he was one
of my Comp Sci
lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name in
the back).
-- Dave
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
4:31 a.m.
New subject: Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions)
Hopefully this still fits the TUHS charter. I'd be happy to see
followups move to COFF.
On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 at 20:16:53 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally
good job with
his XINU books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is
not Unix but he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his
books. I give him credit for my desire to have code be really
simple and self explanatory.
Agreed, modulo (for argument's sake) "equally". Xinu was the first
book I read on âUnixâ internals, and it greatly inspired me.
I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do
you think?
Go for it!
Greg
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8 Dec
8 Dec
10:56 a.m.
New subject: Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions)
On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 at 20:16:53 -0800,
Larry McVoy wrote:
> Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with
> his XINU books. Do you guys know of Doug? [...]
I first heard of Doug Comer on one of my favourite podcasts History of Networking.
He covers his personal history in the development of TCP/IP in the early days
and I think he does touch on a little bit about Xinu, but I may be misremembering.
Definitely worth listening to: https://rule11.tech/history-of-tcp-ip-with-doug-comer/ .
- Naveen
5 Dec
5 Dec
6:26 a.m.
I would second that. His Xinu book was one of the two that helped
demystify operating systems for me.
Wesley Parish
On 12/5/19, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
He is a hero. His notes on early Unix made it
understandable to me.
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with his XINU
books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is not Unix but
he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his books. I give him
credit for my desire to have code be really simple and self explanatory.
I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do you think?
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:58:42AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he
was one of my Comp Sci
lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name
in
the back).
-- Dave
--
---
Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
2:16 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
He is a hero. His notes on early Unix made it understandable to me.
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with his XINU
books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is not Unix but
he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his books. I give him
credit for my desire to have code be really simple and self explanatory.
<snip>
A group at Marquette University ported Xinu to run on Linksys/Cisco
home routers. One of the later editions covers it. Pretty sweet.
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