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From: "Naveen Nathan" <tuhs@t.lastninja.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions)
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 21:56:27 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59faf3cc-d196-4023-b847-952d9114d5ff@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191205043159.GA42246@eureka.lemis.com>

 > 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? [...]

I first heard of Doug Comer on one of my favourite podcasts History of Networking.

He covers his personal history in the development of TCP/IP in the early days
and I think he does touch on a little bit about Xinu, but I may be misremembering.

Definitely worth listening to: https://rule11.tech/history-of-tcp-ip-with-doug-comer/ .

- Naveen

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-08 11:06 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   ` [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-12-08 10:56     ` Naveen Nathan [this message]
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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