Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cognos!rossj From: rossj@cognos.UUCP (Ross Judson) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Direction of MINIX Message-ID: <6383@cognos.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 89 20:03:34 GMT References: <16546@louie.udel.EDU> <251@utrcu1.UUCP> <2086@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Reply-To: rossj@cognos.UUCP (Ross Judson) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 12 Just to add a little more fuel to the fire, our school of comp sci has dumped a pile of 8088 based machine on other departments and on first year courses, and gone AT. We have (I think) 70 or so ATs for course use. Right now the third year operating systems course dissects PC-Xinu. I think the course could be modified to deal with protected-mode MINIX. Clearly, the future trend is towards memory managed hardware. Students will be overwhelmed no matter what course they take; it is better to make it as realistic as possible. -- uucp - uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!rossj |people hate the generator arpa/internet - rossj%cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net |but love to light up the sky