

(SPARC), Apple Macintosh (Motorola 68000), Digital Equipment Corporation DecStation 3100 and VAX, and Transputer. Students port Xinu to variety of platforms Sun Microsystems workstation Volume 2 of the Xinu textbook describes version 7 Xinu textbook written while Comer is on leave at Bell Labsįirst Xinu lab at Purdue used for courses version 7 created that includes UDP/IP (footprint less than 64K bytes) Version 6 complete (footprint less than 8K bytes) Comer, Operating System Design - The Xinu Approach, Second Edition CRC Press, 2015.ĭigital Equipment Corporation donates LSI-11 computers and project starts to explore how to integrate network protocol software into an operating system TextbookĪ completely revised and reorganized second edition of the textbook is nowĭ.

The small size makes Xinu suitable for embedded environments. Shell, and device-independent I/O functions. Xinu is a small, elegant operating system that supports dynamic process creation,ĭynamic memory allocation, network communication, local and remote file systems, a XINU stands for Xinu Is Not Unix - although it shares concepts and even names with Unix,
