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From: dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix ST status
Summary: We need a reliable TTY driver
Message-ID: <062889A2145@syntel.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 89 04:02:30 GMT
Reply-To: dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher)
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> I'm not sure whether I should post the files which are equivalent to the
> PC 1.3 version. What does the net think?
>
> I will get make the stuff as close to 1.3 as possible, together with some
> ST specific kernel stuff. 
> 
> After 1.3, I'll get to 1.4a (or b?) as soon as possible.
> 
> There are a few bug fixes (e.g. in FS) which are needed to get the
> serial driver running. I've not decided whether they will be in the 1.4a
> or the 1.3 version. I am inclined to the first, in order to get as
> compatible as possible, but I'm open to your suggestions.

I regard inclusion of a working TTY driver (working both for dial-out and
dial-in) to be of highest importance.  If this means we need 1.4a rather
than 1.3, so be it!  Also critical is the inclusion of the Supra HD fix
to stwini.c.  This mod doesn't interfere with the operation of any other
drive, and is required for some drives (even some non-Supra drives) to
work at all.  Whatever is done should be done soon since I feel rather
stuck right now in developing further kernel mods when I'm not sure what
the next official baseline will be.

As a matter of interest, in order to support work on a port of the X
window system, I'm designing a compatibility library which implements
Internet Domain Sockets (stream mode only).  This will require a new
task (at the level of FS and MM) tenatively called IPC which provides
the actual transport mechanism to build the Socket emulation on.  This
is planned to be a simple message passing IPC mechanism.

As I said before, however, much of this work is going to be held up
until I know what the next baseline OS will look like, so for now I'm
working on the standard libraries (cf: comp.lang.c).

> Regards,
> 
> Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
> 	Centre for Software Technology
> 	( or try: ...!mcvax!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr)

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