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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions)
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 15:31:59 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191205043159.GA42246@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191205041653.GO32688@mcvoy.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-05  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-04 23:58 [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions Dave Horsfall
2019-12-05  4:16 ` Larry McVoy
2019-12-05  4:31   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2019-12-08 10:56     ` [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions) Naveen Nathan
2019-12-05  6:26   ` [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions Wesley Parish
2019-12-05  6:53   ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-12-05 14:16   ` A. P. Garcia

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