Xinu anyone?

[Jim Scardelis]

> My news address is somewhat unstable, so please excuse if this question was
> just answered on the net.  I seem to recall someone asking about Xinu a few
> weeks back.  I would like to get in touch with anyone hacking Xinu.  I
> understand that there is a tape with the source code available, but you need a
> Unix source license (which I don't have) because the cross-development tools
> have AT&T code in them.  Does anyone have a machine readable form of just the
> published code?  Am particularly interested in a port to the 8086 instruction
> set.
>      Is there such a thing as a Xinu users group?  Any interest in one?  I'm
> intrigued by the idea of somehow making Xinu and MS-DOS co-resident in some
> fashion -- and just using the native DOS file system as is.  If anyone is
> doing this I'd love to be in touch.
>      If you know where I can get the Xinu code, or just want to correspond,
> please reply by uucp-mail to the address below because I read news on
> out-of-town machines by long distance.  Thanks.
> 
>  Jim Rosenberg

	You don't need an AT&T license...there is NO Unix code involved.
The source code is available from Prentice-Hall, Inc. on a 9 track tar
format tape.

	When I get to my office tomorrow, I'll look up the ISBN number
on my tape. Of course, the source code is also in the book:

	"Operating System Design - the XINU Approach"
	by Douglas Comer
	Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
	ISBN 0-13-637539-1

(my wife works for Prentice-Hall).
-- 
				Jim Scardelis
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