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From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the Macintosh
Summary: About time, too...
Message-ID: <2326@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 16 Nov 89 22:43:57 GMT
Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Organization: Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Cc: ianf@draken


  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
  more of the present implementation as well as of the motivation for making
  it into a Macintosh application instead of an alternative to the Mac OS and
  the Finder.

  I'd also like to know the answers to following questions:

1 Does the Minix distribution include an Emacs-clone or similar

2 Is microEmacs 3.10 compatible with it

3 Is there now a mail package  (there was none last time I asked)

4 Has someone actually implemented a news-feed to a Minix machine

5 NNTP -- is it asking too much?

6 What Macintosh-hardware limitations are there for Minix use
  (will it run without a hard drive?).  Also:  what about its speed,
  I hear that Minix isn't the fastest of the operating systems around
  (not being designed for speed, either)

7 If possible I'd like to see a full list of all the utilities that
  have been tested and will be available together with the MacMinix.


  BTW: well done, Andy!  (and whoever else that made it possible)

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