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From: cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dosread.c again
Keywords: minix, useful
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.000935.8342@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 27 Oct 89 00:09:35 GMT
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In article <9830@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
>In article <6627@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Minix is hardly useful as a programming environment (for example, it is not
>even on my hard disk now, Xenix has displaced it, but DOS is always there,
>because I cannot work without it -- My MINIX kernel is, of course, compiled
>under DOS).  DRDOS has most of the drawbacks of MSDOS, and a few extra.

Minix, is my only development environment, DOS is marginally useful for
writing small assembler programs, but for a real program, I would write it
under Minix. I have 2-3 (sometimes 4) minix partitions on my hard drives,
and my boot sector asks me which OS to boot, needles to say I choose minix.

Minix is a God send, now I can write hardware intensive code in C, under
DOS you are stuck with assembler. Unless of course, you are brave enough to
fix the commercial C compiler's libraries, and even then, you don't have
the source for those.

In short, as far as my computer is concerned Minix is the best thing since
sliced bread.

					Lloyd (DOS gets up my nose)
Quick, send your money to cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz now!

If you think anyone believes what I have just said,
then you must be daft in the head!