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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: dosread.c again
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Date: 21 Oct 89 21:34:25 GMT
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In article <1989Oct21.013342.2168@ccu.umanitoba.ca> chan@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Andrew Chan) writes:
>How about the Mac?  Do you hate the Mac OS Andy? :-)  
Does it even have anOS?  The Mac seems to have a niche.  Our secretaries and the
pure mathematicians love them.  I ascribe this to limited power of abstraction.

>I wish Minix could be more powerful as a multi-user system.
I am curious about what this means.  Is MINIX slower than XENIX (probably)?
Has fewer features (Thank Goodness)?  What is it that it lacks?  This is a
purely academic question, since sight unseen I am against the answer :-(.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)