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From: benton@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Kevin Benton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga...vaporware
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Date: 31 Jul 89 14:23:59 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).
>

I'll agree with you that AmigaDOS is half way decent for the user
interface, although from a programmer's standpoint, the operating
system itself is about the buggiest thing I have ever seen.  When my
Amiga crashes CLI's for no apparent reason, I would tend to think
there must be something better out there, especially since Minix comes
with SOURCE CODE!!!!

>
>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??

I don't know if you have ever used Unix before, but there's a lot more
for Unix than just Multiple Users... (not to mention 2000 times more
pd software, interprocess communication, etc.)

>-- 
><- David Herron; an MMDF guy                              <david@ms.uky.edu>
><- ska: David le casse\*'      {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
><-
><- WARNING: Hunting season is now open in West Virginia!
					   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmm, I wonder if he's complaining about guns?  Let's see now...  He
could be commenting about......................

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