Xinu

Name is the reverse of Unix. Small, elegant, multitasking OS with concurrent processing, message passing, ports, semaphores, memory management, buffer pools, uniform device I/O, shell, Tcl, TCP/IP. Begun as means to teach OS design concepts, now used by many education institutions; some embedded system makers have ported it to their hardware: Intel 80960, 8096; Motorola 680x0.

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Research Assistants: J. Lin, A. Muckelbauer, D. Stevens Sponsors: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, AT&T Xinu is a small, elegant system that follows a hierarchical structure. The latest Xinu work has focused on porting Xinu to new architectures, adding support for
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2. Xinu Version 7.0 on the Sun

Large page, many details of using Xinu on Sun 2 and 3 with 68k CPUs.

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Xinu Version 7.0 on the Sun Peter Phillips, Graeme Clark, Terry Coatta, and Barry Brachman Updated for the Sun 3 and converted to HTML, January 1995 by Barry Brachman Over the duration of Computer Science 415 you will be working with computers and operating systems at the lowest level. In many
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3. Xinu

Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the unrelated software company, see Xinu (" X inu I s N ot U nix", a for instructional purposes at in the 1980s. It has been ported to many hardware platforms, including the This page was last modified on 22 March 2009 at 21:40. All text is available
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4. Dennis Brylow's Xinu Lab Infrastructure Page

Keeps the Xinu Millennium Edition: first port to a modern RISC architecture: PowerPC G3 and G4. Marquette University Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.

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Xinu Laboratory allows students to create and test operating system components on real hardware. Unlike simulated or emulated laboratory environments, the Xinu Lab loads kernel images from a frontend production machine directly onto backend test machines, where the operating system code is
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5. Douglas Comer

Xinu creator, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University; information, essays, affiliations.

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Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Sciences West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107 author, lecturer, and consultant Currently on leave from Purdue, serving as VP of Research Collaboration at Cisco Systems. Information is available about: Books Comer has written on
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6. PDP-11 Xinu

Directory with Xinu OS for LSI-11 PDP-11 series of 16-bit computers; distribution has SunCHIP (a.k.a. CHIP) C compiler and assembler, both written in C. Unix archive. The Unix Heritage Society, Unix Archive.

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