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From: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga...vaporware
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Date: 19 Jul 89 19:53:29 GMT
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In article <12212@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>I personally don't see any need for Minix on an amiga
>
>the native OS is nice enough, as is, to either do everything needed
>or is easily extended with off-the-shelf software.  (either PD or otherwise).
>
>The only thing it doesn't do is support other users.  Big deal, it's
>a single user machine as far as I'm concerned.
>
>Question:  *WHY* do you want to have Minix on the amiga??

Remember, although MINIX is evolving in the direction of _something big_ :-),
its primary mission in life is as a TEACHING TOOL.  Specifically, so that
students who are studying operating systems will have the source code for a
system that they can hack on, change, and try things out on.  Granted, it is not
NECESSARY to port MINIX to the Amiga, but for those students who have one, (and
nothing else :-(? ) it is quite useful.

Please remember, too, that multi-tasking is a very nice feature to have even on
a single-user workstation.  (Hence the push to create such abominations as the
Presentation Manager under OS/2 :-).
-- 
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