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From: nall@cs.utk.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.210427.12384@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 21:04:27 GMT
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In article <5Y8ATR8@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <9103212058@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes:
>> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
>> > If Andy won't post to a moderated group, that pretty much shoots that
>> > whole idea down. :-<
>> Right.  His Master's Voice, eh?
>
>No, recognising that Andy's stuff, consisting as it does of updates from
>one rev of Minix to the next, is probably the single most important source
>posting that comes through in here.
>-- 

     Exactly.  In all this furor over whether or not to have one or two
or umpteen-zillion groups, the central issue of Minix development seems
to have gotten lost.  There are really only two people (perhaps groups,
I don't know) who seem to be doing  true Minix development AND SHARING IT
WITH OTHERS.  Andy is one, and Bruce Evans is the other.  I for one do
not want this to stop.  My definition of "true Minix development" by the
way, is the O/S itself - the kernel, MM and FS.  There are a lot of other
very good people doing a lot of very good stuff in other areas, of course.

     So if Andy does not want to play, I see the potential for Minix not
going further than it already has.  Which is not near so far as it needs
to go.  If it stops now, and the only updates we ever get are what comes
out through P-H, Minix will become an interesting piece of history.

John Nall