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From: "Ken Corey, CSCI Major..." <KENC@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Various & Sundry questions....FLAMMABLE!
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Date: 2 Apr 91 00:39:59 GMT
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>.  Cripes!  I thought Minix was a pretty complete OS, but GADS, it's not
>.ANYTHING like the Unix I'm reading about....it's VERY true that it's strictly
>.Unix-like...;)
> 
>The main difference between minix and current unix systems is that
>minix was intended to be coherent and understandable.  Commercial
>unix vendors have never felt constained to sell a system that a
>single person could actually look at and say that it works.

Understood.  Thinking back on that message, I hope I didn't step on any toes
there.  With a little reflection, it's beginning to dawn on me that Minix is a
great way to bootstrap oneself into Unix (down to the hardware if one is so
inclined), so now that I'm working on the basics, I can devote more time to
understanding the more abstract things, and I'll understand them better when I
make the fancy extensions myself, eh?

| Ken Corey  aka... kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu                        |
|  "We MUST succeed, otherwise we run the risk of failure...."   |
|                            -Dan Quayle                         |