[TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions)

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Thu Dec 5 14:31:59 AEST 2019


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 “Unix” 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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