5 Dec
2019
5 Dec
'19
8:16 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
He is a hero. His notes on early Unix made it understandable to me.
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with his XINU
books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is not Unix but
he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his books. I give him
credit for my desire to have code be really simple and self explanatory.
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A group at Marquette University ported Xinu to run on Linksys/Cisco
home routers. One of the later editions covers it. Pretty sweet.