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From: jms@cs.vu.nl (Jan-Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Relationship of unix, mach, minix, amoeba?
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Date: 16 Mar 91 15:30:26 GMT
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In article <OURY.91Mar15152830@world.std.com>,
	oury@world.std.com (david t oury) writes:
> 
> Greetings,
> Could some kind soul please explain what the relationship is between 
> unix, mach, minix, & amoeba? Which of these come with source? I have 
> a sun 3/60 that i would like to use to learn about operating 
> systems, and do some programming in a well wrought environment. If 
> anyone could help me out with their wise words, or could point me 
> somewhere relevant, i would very much appreciate it. Thanks.
> 
> -David Oury (oury@world.std.com)
> Thought for a day: Play suffices; it is intrinsically satisfying.

Well I hope all this is correct;

	UNIX comes in a lot of variants. (Like BSDx.y V7 etc.)
	MACH is build on top of UNIX, supporting extra thingys like RPC.
	MINIX is for small machines but should be V7 compatible with
		the restriktions your XT, AT, ST, (etc.) has. In the
		futer MINIX will be POSIX compliant.
	AMOEBA is a RPC based operating system, it needs a lot of
		machines. There is a UNIX simulator for AMOEBA.

	About UNIX sources you will have to buy them separaty in most
		if not all cases.
	The MACH sources can only be used with AT&T UNIX source code.
		(Or was it BSD?).
	MINIX sources are cheap and one is allowed limited copying.
	AMOEBA comes with sources to, but it's huge!

So what OS you can use will be (90%) depending on your hardware.
If you want to learn use MINIX, if you are a team, maybe AMOEBA.

Regards Jan-Mark.


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