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From: wssaz@chvax.uucp (Schweizer W.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Most requested features in MINIX...
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.155205.18570@chvax.uucp>
Date: 11 Feb 91 15:52:05 GMT
References: <43516@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Feb3.233633.7986@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: wssaz@chvax.UUCP (Schweizer W.)
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In article <1991Feb3.233633.7986@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> rt2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rens Troost) writes:
>I love minix, but boy would a debugger be nice.
>I'm currently doing development on sun-OS, moving the results to minix,
>and sweating the differences. ast has been vocal about keeping the thing
>simple and clean, but the lack of an intel debugger is just intolerable.
>
>-Rens


As MINIX is intendes for educational purposes I also think is needs a
debugger. I work on ST-MINIX and there IS a debugger (mdb), but only
on assembler level. I vote for a SYMBOLIC debugger, which would make
life easier for software porters.

Also a standard graphical interface would be nice (and user friendli)
but let's start by adding graphics at all.
(Again on ST there is something - a screen driver - and I modified it
to work with multiple consoles {if someone is interessted} but this
should be standardised.)

Walter