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From: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga...
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.182441.17336@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 18:24:41 GMT
References: <14066@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Sep20.034119.23845@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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  People, people, people.......


  MINIX is primarily designed for TEACHING about Operating Systems. It is often
used in Jr and Senior level classes for projects. For example here at UTA they 
had to rewrite the floppy driver to "cache" a track of data at a time.

  You would NEVER want to run MINIX as a primary OS, unless you are REALLY into
kernel hacking or are fascinated how OS's work. (It is rather interesting, if I
do say so myself).

  As far as patches and mods go... "Where there's PATCH and DIFF there's a way"
Look on a MINIX ftp sites there are lots.

  At least now I can use my Amiga for Operating Systems class.
-- 
 adam hill                                   Everybody lies about sex.     
 hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu    BOING!4Ever     Rub HER feet!
                                             It's better to copulate than never
 AmigaDos2.0 - A VW with $10,000 in options.         --Robert A. Heinlein