[TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions

[A. P. Garcia]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM Larry McVoy <lm at 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.