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Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.*

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On 2011-02-06, Sidney Lambe <evergreen@alt.religion.wicca> wrote:
> On comp.os.linux.misc, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> 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....??

No, it's just a from a book by a different author aimed at the same
target audience.  Xinu was written by Doug Comer and presenting in his
OS textbook, and Minix was written by Andrew Tannenbaum and presenting
in his OS textbook.  I think Minix was probably the more popular and
more recently updated of the two, but I though Comer's book was
excellent.  IIRC Xinu is more of a traditional Unix kernel
architecture as opposed to the micro-kernel approach adopted by recent
versions of Minix.

The Xinu books:

  http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Design-XINU-Approach/dp/0136375391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297028954&sr=1-1
  http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Design-Vol-Internetworking/dp/013637414X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297028954&sr=1-2

The Minux book:

  http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementation-3rd/dp/0131429388/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297029016&sr=1-1

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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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