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From: comer@PURDUE.EDU (Douglas Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.xinu
Subject: PC Xinu
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Date: 6 Feb 88 16:39:13 GMT
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>>>  From: nuchat!splut!jay@uunet.uu.net  (Jay Maynard)
>>>  Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
>>>  Subject: New XINU/PC book: out yet?
>>>  Message-Id: <364@splut.UUCP>
>>>  Sender: xinu-librarian@purdue.edu
>>>  To: info-xinu@purdue.edu
>>>  
>>>  Has the new version of XINU, already ported to the 8086 in a PC environment,
>>>  come out yet? If not, any ideas when?
>>>  
>>>  (BTW, I chose XINU over MINIX because of the complete lack of licensing
>>>  hassles for using it as a multitasking kernel in a dedicated micro
>>>  environment.)
>>>  
>>>  Please E-mail; I'll summarize.
>>>  
>>>  -- 
>>>  Jay Maynard, K5ZC (@WB5BBW)...>splut!< | GEnie: JAYMAYNARD  CI$: 71036,1603
>>>  uucp: {uunet!nuchat,academ!uhnix1,{ihnp4,bellcore,killer}!tness1}!splut!jay
>>>  Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
>>>  The opinions herein are shared by none of my cats, much less anyone else.
>>>  

The revised book,

	D. Comer and T. Fossum
	Operating System Design, The Xinu Approach (PC edition)
	Prentice Hall, 1988

Has been typeset and is being printed (was actually typeset last week and is
being printed and bound over the next couple of weeks).  The publisher has a
scheduled in-stock date (their technical jargon for having physical books in
hand) of March 16.  The software is temporarily available from:

	Timothy Fossum,
	Department of Computer Science,
	University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
	Kenosha, Wisconsin  53141

and will be available from the publisher very soon.  If you want to order
the book, contact your local PH representative or

	James Fegen Jr.
	Prentice Hall
	Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
	(201) 592-3122