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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: AmigaMinix, why is no one talking about it
Keywords: Minix, amiga
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Date: 3 Dec 90 06:46:12 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.113031.6283@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) writes:
> I am an amiga user and have been waiting for minix to come out for a LONG
>time.  Ok its here.  what now.  I am surpried to see very little talk
>about it in this news group.  Whats wrong?  Are people to involved
>to bother reading this group?

No, we already have a multitasking OS, remember? :-)

Personally, I'd like to get MINIX, but there's little support for those
of us with a *real* architecture (ie: non 80x6 based).  It seems that
MINIX has been developed more for hardware which has no real multitasking
system available. :-) (well, there *is* microport's 286 unix, but it's
a real dog.)

If I did not already have a multitasking OS, I'd probably be all over
MINIX.  I'm still considering it, just so I can have the source for an
OS to play with.  (Which I never got with OS-9, sniff.)

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