Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!agate!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun33!mboen From: mboen@nixdorf.de (Martin Boening) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari word processors Keywords: wordprocessor, wp, 1st word Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 90 18:40:58 GMT References: <1990Oct18.013304.8034@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1990Oct18.144010.6612@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Sender: news@nixpbe.nixdorf.de Lines: 31 In <1990Oct18.144010.6612@rodan.acs.syr.edu> mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew J. Ducey) writes: >What is Minix? Where is a .doc that will explain this to me? MINIX is a UNIX(TM)-like operating system replacement for the IBM PC/XT/AT, the Atari ST/Mega_ST and meanwhile for the Amiga (A2000 only) the MAC (MacMINIX) and lots of other systems. The ones listed here explicitly are those you can get a commercial version for from Prentice Hall. MINIX is a lot like System 7 but after being patched to MINIX 1.5 it has more and more enhancements to it. There are efforts going on to make it as posix-like as possible. However, it was basically written for OS courses. Currently there's a discussion in comp.os.minix on where MINIX should be heading and how to keep the readability important for OS courses while adding features which would be USEFUL. There's no doc file. There is, however, a so-called MINIX Information Sheet which is posted regularly in comp.os.minix (you should be reading that group as you may notice). The latest version I have is dated Oct. 3 (mtime on my machine!). I can mail that to you if you're interested. I'm not going to post it since I'm not the one who maintains it and it is as I mentioned, posted at regular intervals in comp.os.minix. I hope this helps all of you who've been asking the above question. Have fun Martin -- Email: in the USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.com outside USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.de Paper Mail: Martin Boening, Nixdorf Computer AG, SNI STO SI 355, Pontanusstr. 55, 4790 Paderborn, W.-Germany (Phone: +49 5251 146155)