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From: budd@bu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX VS XINU
Message-ID: <3721@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 14:34:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 14:34:00 1987
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Reply-To: budd@bu-cs.UUCP (Philip Budne)
Organization: Boston Univ. CS Dept.
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Xinu as described in the book was not an attempt at providing a user
oriented operating system. For example there are no provisions for
user address spaces (fork takes the address of a routine to call)

The tape from the publisher contains a complete cross development
environment for VAX/BSD, which includes a modified version of the Un*x
V7 C compiler, loader etc in source code.

I believe the only reason for the licence is to obtain the v7 tools.