Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Should I switch to Minix St?
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.182852.14628@doe.utoronto.ca>
Sender: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 18:28:52 GMT

I have read the info sheet on Minix ST 1.5 from comp.os.minix, but
I still have a couple of reservations. People like David Beckemeyer and
Eric Smith have been working very hard to stretch TOS to its limits,
but TOS is not (and will never be) Unix. I'm wondering if, instead of
spending all my time getting everything to run under MiNT, I should
just take a couple of partitions (I have 115 MB of disk space now)
and install Minix ST.

How many of you are using Minix? I know that there have been many
improvements in the new version. Minix is supposed to be V7 compatible.
Does that mean that -DBsd in a cc command line is enough to compile
Unix code for Minix? Is job control possible? Is this a stupid idea?
I'd hate to have to shell out $200 (Canadian, approximately) for Minix,
but I guess it's really quite cheap.

Please post your comments if you think that they are of general interest
(anyone who doesn't like this thread doesn't have to read it), or
mail them to me if you think they are not. Thank you.


David Megginson


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