Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!srm From: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga... Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 20:07:12 GMT References: <14066@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <90262.224308JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 43 In article <90262.224308JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes: > > I saw a post about GUI for MINIX but the problem was lack of > > graphics.lib. Anybody have any suggestions. > > If it doesn't, then there are going to be problems.... and not just > with the Amiga. I mean, more and more people are realizing just > how neat GUI's are, and aside from that, are getting into computer > graphics. Yes, I know how difficult it would be to have cross- > compatibility with MINIX on other machines if graphics had to be > included too, but that fact does not make the real-world desire > for graphics go away. If MINIX doesn't offer any graphics support, > it probably won't last all that long, and will follow CP/M to the > grave. I may be wrong, and I don't have any hopes one way or another, > but this is how I see it from my view of today's computer market. > > > > Alexei > > xwm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu In all fairness to Minix I have to defend it concerning going the **CP/M way** because of a graphic-less future. If you know a little of the the history of Minix (And I do know a little :-0) you would know that its originally charter in life was to provide a unix like engine for educational enlightenment. In other words in the beginning Minix was not intended to dominate the world of Operating Systems. Just a learning tool... Now it's maturing to a point where it may soon be a viable alternative to what we have today but it's still going strong in a world where all we ask for is a good OS and some code to hack on :-)... srm -- Scott R. Myers Snail: 26 Stiles Street Phone:(201)882-3100 Apartment 18 Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Arpa: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu Uucp: ..!dimacs!srm "... No matter where you go, there you are ..."