From: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 19:26:38 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpebTxiK5Nxap-jCtdTkHGviQ14DgPC+i5udxmiS2nGPYTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191205041653.GO32688@mcvoy.com>
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
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 23:58 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
2019-12-05 6:26 ` Wesley Parish [this message]
2019-12-05 6:53 ` [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions Thomas Paulsen
2019-12-05 14:16 ` A. P. Garcia
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2018-12-04 21:16 Dave Horsfall
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