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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Assorted questions
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.235145.25212@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <877@sce.carleton.ca> <628@philica.ica.philips.nl>
Date: 17 Jul 90 03:51:45 GMT
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In article <628@philica.ica.philips.nl> adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) writes:
>The problem with the one-threaded FS is mentioned regularly in this
>newsgroup and I agree: it has to be fixed. On my SparcStation, I use a
>multi-windowed TTY driver and I suffer the single-threadedness
>continuously when in one window, a `make' is started, or another disk-
>intensive process, like `find' or `tar', and I want to edit a file in
>another window.

Err, how did you get Minix to perform in windows?  Is Minix running as
the actual OS on your Sparc, or just a user process faking an OS on top
of the real SparcUnix OS?  If it's the real OS, HOW THE HECK did you get
it to run windows???  Is this something we other Minixer's might be
interested in?  "MXwindows"  :-) ?

-- 
"The number of programs that can be done with the HST has always greatly
exceeded the time available for their execution, and this remains true even
with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science Working Group and
User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29.
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