* [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions)
2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
@ 2019-12-05 4:31 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-12-08 10:56 ` Naveen Nathan
2019-12-05 6:26 ` [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions Wesley Parish
` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2019-12-05 4:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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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 âUnixâ 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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* Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
2019-12-05 4:31 ` [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
@ 2019-12-05 6:26 ` Wesley Parish
2019-12-05 6:53 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-12-05 14:16 ` A. P. Garcia
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From: Wesley Parish @ 2019-12-05 6:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
I would second that. His Xinu book was one of the two that helped
demystify operating systems for me.
Wesley Parish
On 12/5/19, Larry McVoy <lm@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.
>
> I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do you think?
>
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:58:42AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he was one of my Comp Sci
>> lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name
>> in
>> the back).
>>
>> -- Dave
>
> --
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> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>
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* Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
2019-12-05 4:31 ` [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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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From: Thomas Paulsen @ 2019-12-05 6:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: tuhs
>I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do you think?
Thanks a lot. Do it!
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* Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
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2019-12-05 6:53 ` Thomas Paulsen
@ 2019-12-05 14:16 ` A. P. Garcia
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From: A. P. Garcia @ 2019-12-05 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM Larry McVoy <lm@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.
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