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Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.*

Newsgroups comp.os.misc, comp.os.msdos.misc, comp.os.netware.misc, comp.os.linux.misc
From Sidney Lambe <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca>
Subject Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.*
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Date 2011-02-07 00:32 +0100
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On comp.os.linux.misc, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At 6 Feb 2011 21:55:16 +0100 Sidney Lambe
> <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca> wrote:
>
>
>> On comp.os.linux.misc, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > At 6 Feb 2011 20:32:51 +0100 Sidney Lambe
>> > <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca> wrote:
>>
>> [delete]
>>
>> >> This is comp.os.linux.misc
>> >>
>> >> Why the hell would we care about a bunch of Windows groups?
>> >
>> > Near the bottom of the list is 'comp.os.xinu'. XINU is a
>> > 'toy' UNIX-ish operating system and is mostly useful as a
>> > system to study if one is interested in learning just how a
>> > *UNIX* flavored kernel works. Eg. before one 'dives' into
>> > the Linux kernel (read: "deep end"), one can look at xinu
>> > (read: "kiddie pool" / "shallow end"). Why all of the mess
>> > windows groups have been 'lumped' with the few others is
>> > strange (to me).
>>
>> That does sound useful. I gather it's better for this purpose
>> than minix....??
>
> Yes. XINU was designed, in part, as a teaching tool. There is a
> book: "Operating System Design: The XINU Approach", by Douglas
> Comer, ISBN 0-13-637539-1, Prentice-Hall. This book pretty much
> goes through the XINU system, line-by-line, explaining what
> is going on and is a basic textbook for a course on operating
> system design.
>

Prentice-Hall. A prestigious publisher. I don't think I'm quite
enough of a geek to tackle something like that. I'm still struggling
with shell scripting.

TNX

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Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-02-06 14:13 -0600
  Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-02-06 23:25 +0000
    Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2011-02-08 13:38 +0000
      Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-02-08 22:53 +0000
  Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-02-06 21:53 +0000
    Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Sidney Lambe <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca> - 2011-02-07 00:32 +0100
  Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-02-06 15:14 -0600
    Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Sidney Lambe <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca> - 2011-02-07 00:32 +0100
  Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.* Sidney Lambe <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca> - 2011-02-06 21:55 +0100

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