Xref: utzoo comp.os.minix:12368 comp.sys.amiga:66214 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ogicse!plains!overby From: overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New MINIX available (UNIX clone with full source code) Message-ID: <5894@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 15 Sep 90 15:16:01 GMT References: <1990Sep11.073655.6259@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <7559@star.cs.vu.nl> <90257.232245UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Silo Tech, Fargo ND USA Lines: 18 In article <90257.232245UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes: >It occurs to me that the subject line of this thread is somewhat misleading. >[...] After all, it will run >on a plain vanilla IBM PC (8088, 2 floppies, 640K). The source is there How is that "evidence" for not being a Unix clone? I have a *REAL* Unix machine sitting right at hand: It's a PDP 11/23 with 256K RAM and a pair of 256K floppy disk drives. It can run (when turned on) a non-swapping Unix(TM) Version 6 ("Classic Unix" :-) with up to four users logged on via serial ports (no, I haven't ported C-news to it yet). My PC running Minix is quite a bit larger, but remember that Unix can run on Crays too, so size doesn't make much difference. -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)