Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Xinu (\"Xinu Is Not Unix\", a recursive acronym) is an operating system for embedded systems, originally developed by Douglas Comer for instructional purposes at Purdue University in the 1980s. The name is both recursive, and is \"Unix\" spelled backwards. It has been ported to many hardware platforms, including the DEC PDP-11 and VAX systems, Sun-2 and Sun-3 workstations, Intel x86, PowerPC G3 and MIPS. Xinu was also used for some models of Lexmark printers.Despite its name suggesting some similarity to Unix, Xinu is truly a different operating system, written without knowledge of the Unix source code and without the goal of compatibility; it uses different abstractions, different system calls and in fact has some system calls with names matching those of Unix, but different semantics."@en }
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- Xinu abstract "Xinu (\"Xinu Is Not Unix\", a recursive acronym) is an operating system for embedded systems, originally developed by Douglas Comer for instructional purposes at Purdue University in the 1980s. The name is both recursive, and is \"Unix\" spelled backwards. It has been ported to many hardware platforms, including the DEC PDP-11 and VAX systems, Sun-2 and Sun-3 workstations, Intel x86, PowerPC G3 and MIPS. Xinu was also used for some models of Lexmark printers.Despite its name suggesting some similarity to Unix, Xinu is truly a different operating system, written without knowledge of the Unix source code and without the goal of compatibility; it uses different abstractions, different system calls and in fact has some system calls with names matching those of Unix, but different semantics.".