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From: lennox@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX
Message-ID: <1470@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 14:16:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 4 Jun 90 22:03:01 GMT

In article <6785@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>   Because IBM, Atari, and Commodore are happy to tell you how the machine
>   works.  Apple's attitude is that you are a user and you can be trusted to
>   point with the mouse.  How the disk controller, clock, video,
>   keyboard and DMA chips work is none of your bloody business.
>   Kind of hard to write a native OS for a secret machine.
>
>   Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

Well isn't that special?!?  To think that ten years ago, Apple used to
tell you anything you ever wanted to know about the Apple ][ ... right
down to detailed schematics.  Now they are no fun anymore.  These days,
they'd be likely to SUE YOU for releasing something with the "look and
feel" of A/UX.  :-)

Now, I don't mean to seem insulting, but if MacMINIX isn't a native
operating system, then what exactly is it?  And what good is it?
I thought the whole point of MINIX was to teach students all the inner
workings of a real O/S ... can't do that very well if it's stuck way
up on the application level.


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