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From: comer@PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer)
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Subject: Re:  what is xinu
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Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 08:48:44 EST
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Xinu is a small, elegant operating system described in a 2-volume set of
textbooks by Douglas Comer:

		Opeating System Design (Vol I)
		The Xinu Approach
		Prentice Hall, 1984

		Operating System Design (Vol II)
		Internetworking with Xinu
		Prentice Hall, 1987

Among the features are: hierarchical design, rich functionality, novel
implementations of system components, and implementation in C that makes
it portable.

Although Xinu contains many ideas found in UNIX, it is definitely
NOT compatible in any sense.

Doug