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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: extension to Bruce"s 386 kernel and MINIX
Message-ID: <445@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 90 21:41:40 GMT
References: <32696@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <32696@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, by cracraft@ai.mit.edu:
> ...Stuart trashes all over on Bruce and Earl, winding up with:
> 
> To repeat: installation of Evans' 386 kernel with Chew's cppmake
> failed miserably on a Minix 1.5 (IBM PC AT clone). It was very
> disappointing.
> 
> Stuart

I haven't even looked at Bruce's kernel, but I think your complaint is
ridiculous.  This is volunteer work, done by a rag-tag fleet on a lonely
quest for a shining planet called...Minix.  To criticize them for not
producing an "upgrade" up to your standards ("an idiot should be able to
get this to work on arbitrary hardware before you post it") is absurd.
Since they can't distribute a complete, working set of disks thanks to
Andy's decision (long, long ago) to SELL the disks through Prentice-Hall,
you can't really blame Bruce or Earl for the difficulties in applying
their modifications.  Maybe Andy should persuade Prentice-Hall to SELL a
version of Minix with Bruce's 386 code already in place, for people like
Stuart...

My apologies to everyone I've offended (I'm sure there are dozens...)
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