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From: craig_dewick%713.600@fidogate.fido.oz (Craig Dewick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: THE FUTURE OF MINIX
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Date: 30 Jul 89 20:55:11 GMT
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Original to: ast@cs_vu_nl
Hello Andy.
 
It is pleasing to see all this support for Minix. I own a kit 68000 system for
which a port of minix 1.2 has been recently completed. The final code looks
nothing like your original listing in the 'red book', however it works and
performs well. It has been over a year in development, mainly because the
person who did the port has not been able to spend all his time on it.
 
There are still many small problems to be ironed out, but very soon we should
have a very stable, efficient version of Minix running on our machines. I have
never used Minix on a PC so I cannot say how it compares performance-wise, but
I am looking forward to a new book. I have read the current edition cover to
cover (except the source code) and found it very informative. I have used Unix
on the university's Amdahl mainframe and have never really understood many of
the things the experienced Unix users take for granted. Your book helped me
understand some of these things.
 
I will be eagerly awaiting the new edition.
 
C ya later.... Craig.

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