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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the Macintosh + answers to homework #2
Message-ID: <4565@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 17 Nov 89 10:52:43 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <2326@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
>
>  My interest in Minix awakened following the announcement of the existence
>  of a MacMinix.  It would be intersting to hear Andy Tanenbaum tell a little
I will leave this to Joe Pickert, since he did the port.
To avoid having the mailer complain about too much included text, here are
the answers to the homework assignment #2.

1. La prevenzione delle situazioni di stallo - deadlock prevention
2. L'hardware degli orologi - clock hardware
3. File condivisi - shared files
4. Canali coperti - covert channels
5. I-nodi - I-nodes.
6. Directory e cammini - directory and paths
7. Lo swapping - swapping
8. Gestione della memoria con mappa di bit - memory management with bit maps
9. Politiche di allocazione locale anziche globale - local and global 
   alloc policies
10. Interfaccia a livelli - interface level

line #4 is quite famous of course. 
When the Italian astronomer Schaparelli (sp?)discovered markings 
on Mars, he called them "canali" which means channels inItalian.  
It does not connote "artificial or man-made."  
When that got mistranslated into English as "canals" the Sci Fri writers 
went ape and beganwriting about little green men.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)