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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Re^2: Where is Minix headed?
Keywords: Minix for grad courses?
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Date: 23 Oct 90 20:19:43 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.072105.20694@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) writes:
>In article <612@eds1.UUCP> cdh1@eds1.UUCP (C. Daniel Hassell) writes:
>>I propose that we solve this by not pestering Andy to amend his elegant
>>code, but rather develop an enhanced Minix, or perhaps Internet Minix,
>>that has the features WE want.
>
>I have been doing something like this for the last 3 years. Andy confused
>the issue by adopting most of my changes for 1.5.
>-- 
>Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au


I might add that I plan to use Bruce's Minix-386 system to teach my
Operating System course, when next I teach it (probably next summer).
(By then, perhaps, I'll have Minix-386 working :-<  )

While I am one of Andy's most loyal fans, I find that since the textbook
doesn't track the code anymore in any event, I'm going to have to do
some sort of improvision.  And since our PC lab has only 386's......

On another chain of thought, why doesn't someone who is good at organizing
use the fact that quite a few people are "using" Bruce's 386 system (that
is in quotes because I'm including people like myself who don't have it
completely going yet!) to get a SIG going.
--
John W. Nall		| Supercomputation Computations Research Institute
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu  | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
 "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." - Larry Wall