* [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
@ 2018-12-04 21:16 Dave Horsfall
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2018-12-04 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
We lost Dr. John Lions of 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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* [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
@ 2019-12-04 23:58 Dave Horsfall
2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-12-04 23:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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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* Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
2019-12-04 23:58 Dave Horsfall
@ 2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
2019-12-05 6:26 ` Wesley Parish
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2019-12-05 4:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Horsfall; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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
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2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
@ 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
>
> --
> ---
> 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 6:26 ` 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
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: 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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