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From: dm@think.com (Dave Mankins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Port of MINIX to Unix-PC
Keywords: AT&T-Unix/PC, 3B1, 7300
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.041801.6327@Think.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 04:18:01 GMT
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In article <5409@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> ac999321@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (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?

Two reasons:

	``better'' is open to dispute --- quite a few of us
		curmudgeons still look back fondly on Version 7,
		with which MINIX is compatible.

	complete sources --- even though I have quite enough
		kernel hacking at work to keep me entertained, I
		still itch to change a few things on the 3b1
		(getting rid of the 14 character filename limit
		is the biggest, adding a file-system driver that
		talks across a serial line to the *really big*
		disks at work, changing the screen driver so
		windows can stretch from the top to the bottom of
		the screen, and so they only have one-pixel
		borders...)





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david mankins (dm@think.com)