final brainteaser for the day

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Mon Jun 24 16:13:14 2002

At 02:00 PM 6/24/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> Not listed on the "complete" list is XINU, which is an educational
>> operating system developed at Purdue University by Dr. Comer (his
>> students, and others) and was taught on LSI-11s for a number of
>> years before newer more modern processors took their place.
>>
>> "XINU" == "Xinu Is Not Unix"
>>
>> --tom
>
>Hmmm, in taking another look at the list, I'm guessing that the author chose
>to group all UNIX varients except Ultrix and Venix under "UNIX". Kind of
>odd when you consider how many RSX varients are listed.
>
> Zane
>

Then they are mistaken. It is XINU is not Unix, not is it similar other
then having an open, close, read, write, ioctl API construct.

--tom
Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 16:13:14 BST