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From: parker@homer.njit.edu (Bruce Parker)
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Subject: Re: student OS projects
Summary: Oops!  I misrepresented OSP
Keywords: operating system project
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Date: 19 Mar 91 20:23:04 GMT
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On Mar 19,  1:27pm, kifer@sbcs.sunysb.edu wrote:
} 
} >>	Message-ID: <2657@njitgw.njit.edu>
} 
} >>	We have been using both Kifer and Smolka's OSP and Comer's Xinu.  I am
} >>	not really satisfied with either, since the student misses out on many
} >>	other interesting issues.  In particular they include nothing about
} >>	virtual memory or signals.
} 
} I would like to point out that your message is inaccurate, to say the least.
} OSP does have virtual memory and does include signals (although signals are
} not like in UNIX, but rather as in IBM mainframe).
} I would appreciate if you clarify your statement.
}
} thanx
} michael

Which is what I deserve for writing the original posting in a hurry.
I had in mind a comparison with Xinu and Minix, not OSP, though in my
ignorance, I now may be insulting both Comer and Tanenbaum as well.

Anyway, I was only fishing for alternatives.  I'm sorry for the
misstatements.

Cheers,
-- 
Bruce Parker
4314 Infotech   				(201) 596-3369
Computer and Information Science Department 	parker@vienna.njit.edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey  07102 USA