Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Macintosh Minix: release date info, and a query
Message-ID: <1990Aug18.034657.15940@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug17.164258.2806@nixtdc.uucp>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 03:46:57 GMT

In article <1990Aug17.164258.2806@nixtdc.uucp> doug@nixtdc.UUCP (Doug Moen) writes:
>1. Does Mac Minix (a) use its own file system, or (b) use
>   the Macintosh file system?

Considering the slightly bizarre nature of the Mac file system, and Minix's
straight-Unix orientation, very probably (a).

>3. Does Mac Minix follow the Mac convention of using character 13 as
>   the newline character, or does it follow the unix convention of using
>   character 10 as newline? ...

One would hope that it follows the standard ASCII convention of using
10 as newline, rather than Apple's mistake.  (If you read the ASCII
standard, it says that if a single character is used for both CR and
LF, it shall be LF, i.e. 10.)

>4. Is it possible for Mac Minix and Multifinder to run at the same time?

Surely you jest.
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