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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: dosread.c again
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.165952.11158@world.std.com>
Date: 23 Oct 89 16:59:52 GMT
References: <695.254152F7@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <3768@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <3768@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
| 2. Virtual memory.  I tend to regard this as obsolete.

Eek.  Perhaps unnecessary for MINIX, but far from obsolete.  Further,
adding it would be the best way to show students what kinds of junk a
"real" operating system has to deal with, which was what I thought
MINIX was all about in the first place.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com