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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Re: New MINIX available (UNIX clone with full source code)
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Date: 15 Sep 90 10:43:07 GMT
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UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:

}It occurs to me that the subject line of this thread is somewhat misleading.
}Minix is not really a "UNIX clone" in the sense that a COMPAQ is an
}IBM clone, for example.

Actually, I thought it _is_ a Unix clone in just that sense, just not
the "unix" that most of us think of as being "Unix".  I'm not REAL
familiar with Minix, but as I understood, to first order the first
version of Minix was a reimplementation of 7th Edition Unix.

}  Tanenbaum even says somewhere in the
}book that Minix is written to be clear rather than fast.

Well, the 7th edition code from AT&T was pretty clear, too, as it turns
out.  The 7th edition system was pretty much the last of the
small-kernel, limited-service versions of Unix [of course, that
philosophical idea is the _essence_ of Unix for some folk, and they
find the Berkelely/SysV monster systems as abominations].  The system
calls were simple and straightforward, and there was not a lot of
mystery and magic inside the kernel.

  /Bernie\