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From: ladd@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh Xinu
Message-ID: <76000188@uiucdcsp>
Date: 11 Apr 88 15:41:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!ladd    Apr 11 09:41:00 1988


>>Please post a message if someone runs Xinu, I am sure others on the net 
>>would be interested.
>
>Is this what I think it is? the anitmatter version of Un*x?
>
>4) What sort of implementation of Un*x is it (Berkeley?, SYS V)?
>   a) what do you get (editors, compilers, devel facility)?
>   b) Is there support for NFS? or other Networking protocols?
>5) Does it or will it support the X Window System or NeWs?
>6) What kind of Mac configuration is required? (ie Pmmu?, Memory,Disk space)
>7) Does it co-exist with MultiFinder? Or run under Finder only or what?
>
>There, I think that ought to cover it...
>
>David L. Williams
>"Un*x for the rest of us at last?"

	This is a joke, right?  XINU is a teaching OS described in two
books by D. Comer from Prentice-Hall -- "Operating System Design: The XINU
Approach" and ".. Internetworking with XINU"  The source for the OS
is in the first book above.  It bears little resemblance to UNIX, and
is mainly useful to illustrate the problems unique to OS design and
implementation.  As such, it has even less functionality than MINIX,
(see comp.os.minix) which still hasn't been completely ported to the Mac
as far as I know.  
	Now what I want to see is GNU for the Mac II w/PMMU.

Dave Ladd	ladd@uiuc.edu   ...ihnp4!uiucdcs!ladd