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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Novice questions on 1.5
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.134041.7081@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 25 Oct 90 13:40:41 GMT
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In article <34004@nigel.ee.udel.edu> KHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka) writes:
>        Does the Minix 1.5 mailed out by the Prentice-Hall have any of the 386
>kernel stuff floating around on the net ?

No.

>My question is what are the things we are not getting from PH that one can
>get from the net

A few hundred KB of user-supported Minix-specific sources.
A few MB of net sources that have been ported to Minix.
A few hundred MB of net sources that have not been ported to Minix.
I have seen complaints that PH did not distribute any man pages. There are
1.5.0 versions in the archives.

>        Finally, What are the additional features (compared to standard Minix)
>in Bruce's 386-Minix. In terms of MM, multi-tasking or anyother advantages that
>one can have due to the hardware design of 80386.

Very few additional features are implemented yet. Of course you get 32-bit
code and 4GB segments. Hard disk i/o is about twice as fast because the
buffer cache can be of a more adequate size.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au