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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: AMOEBA, etc.
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Date: 17 Mar 91 10:21:12 GMT
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In article <47864@nigel.ee.udel.edu> acm118@flora (Michael A. Irons) writes:
>I'll post this. Along with the 1.3 package came a set of files that when built
>into the kernel, etc. gave one amoeba NETWORKING capabilities. 
Good point.  The story is this.  Amoeba needed a networking capability and
I had a driver for the Amoeba protocol lying around, so I used it.  This
does not turn MINIX into Amoeba any more than an MS-DOS or VMS machine running
TCP/IP suddenly becomes UNIX.  Thus the only correspondence between MINIX
and Amoeba is that MINIX used an Amoeba-compatible network driver.  Whether
this will continue remains to be seen.  Perhaps, depending on various
developments.

>I'm waiting
>until pcMinix-1.6PH to buy that as may next PH baseline 

I am now preparing 1.6.15, and will send cdiffs against 1.5 to the beta
list for testing within a week or so.  If you want to join, contact Glen
Overby.  1.6 will never be available from PH.  It is just a dump of what
I have running now, a step along the way to the next real version, 2.0,
which is a couple of years down the road before PH has it, assuming all
goes well.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)