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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
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Subject: Re: Minix 1.3
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Date: 18 Sep 90 13:16:59 GMT
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In article <10758@life.ai.mit.edu> cracraft@ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
>[ A repost of a message posted last night that had mysteriously vanished
>by this morning. If censored because in the message the view is that
>Minix has some serious, basic faults, then I'd be even doubly wary of
>it!]

I wouldn't.  The earlier message got through ok.  Minix is not a moderated
newsgroup, and all kinds of junk gets in here, unfortunately.

[...a lot of whining deleted about Minix 1.3 deleted...]

The primary point made is that Minix 1.3 is on its face floppy based rather
than harddisk based.  Well, of course it was.  That was Andy's initial
philosophy for an instructional OS which could be used on the most basic
pc.

Actually, there was quite a bit of harddisk support there, but one had to
read the documentation to pick up on it - it was not in the textbook.  And I
have to admit that like all good computer documentation, it was often much
clearer once you knew how to do it, than before.  :-)

Anyway, quicherbiching and go to 1.5.  




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