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From: hastings@sequoia.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Xinu for the Mac?
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Date: 19 Mar 89 23:35:24 GMT
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Yesterday I saw a copy of Comer's XINU (vol. 1) book in the Macintosh
section at Computer Literacy.  It was a special "Macintosh Edition,"
and included an order-form for Macintosh diskettes ($80/set) containing
the Xinu OS for the Macintosh.  I believe that Xinu was designed to
teach operating systems principles, something along the lines of Andy
Tanenbaum's Minix.

But before I put out $44 for the book and $80 for the disks, I want to know
if anyone has had any experience with it.  Xinu might turn out to be a fun
little OS to have as long as the source is included and the cross-
compilation procedure is not too slow (I'm assuming it runs as an alternate
native OS, not piggybacked on top of MacOS).

Thanks,
	Mark Hastings
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