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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Port of MINIX to Unix-PC
Keywords: AT&T-Unix/PC, 3B1, 7300
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Date: 15 Mar 91 14:55:28 GMT
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In article <5409@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, ac999321@umbc5 (ac999321) writes:
>Just curious; why would you want to port Minix to this system when you
>already have a better version of Unix running on it?

How about things like having the source, being able to fix bugs, being
able to make the kernel better ?  Minix is a good choice for this now,
because it has good support from the net community and because there
are no truly freely distributable alternatives (for the whole system,
I mean, but that will probably change sometime before year 2000)
currently available (hmm, don't know if Trix counts).

Let's take an example: I wasn't satisfied with the 14 character file
name length limitation on Minix.  I just changed two constants in two
include files, wrote a program to convert directories to the new
format and rebuilt my system - almost by magic it has 62-character
file names now.  How do you that on the Unix-PC's OS ?

//Jyrki