Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Multitasking system now available for beta test
Message-ID: <6812.26d513c1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 24 Aug 90 15:47:13 GMT
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A beta test version of MiNT (MiNT is Not TOS) is now available at
atari.archive.umich.edu, in the file mint05.zoo. MiNT is a multitasking
extension for TOS. It comes with complete C source code and is freeware
(but *not* public domain -- see the docs). Some of the features it has
are:
   pipes, pseudo-ttys, named FIFOs, BSD-like signal handling, fork() and
vfork() system calls, job control, special pseudo-drives (for accessing
FIFOs, BIOS devices, and processes -- you can delete or rename a process
by doing the appropriate thing to the entry on the pseudo-drive), and
other Unix-like features.

Since this is beta-test software, I would caution you to get it only if
you're a reasonably experienced programmer. I will be posting MiNT
to the sources and binaries groups sometime in September, if all goes well;
in the meantime I would be very interested in hearing of any bugs
and in suggestions for improvements.
--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   ersmith@uwovax.bitnet
London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7
ph: (519) 661-3638