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From: ehj@mordor.ARPA (Eric H Jensen)
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Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 17:31:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 23 17:31:35 1986
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In article <8610222121.AA19551@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> neville@ads.ARPA (Neville Newman) writes:
>i saw a whole flock of requests for Xinu go by on unix-sources/net.sources
> ...
>of Xinu and maybe some comparisons to other common OSs, so that we might
>dispense with the book if it's really ugly.

In my opinion the book is nothing short of excellent!  It was the
first OS text I read that allowed me to associate well known
abstractions with very clean, readable, high level, REAL code. I liked
Comer's writing style - fast reading (well organized and succinct),
lots of information.

The book...

Library of Congress stuff

      Comer, Douglas
        Operating System Design, the XINU Approach
	(Prentice-Hall software series)
	...
	QA76.6.c6275   1984     001.64'2  83-19270
	ISBN 0-13-637539-1


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eric h. jensen        (S1 Project @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Phone: (415) 423-0229 USMail: LLNL, P.O. Box 5503, L-276, Livermore, Ca., 94550
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