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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.sources.small-unix? (Re: Is posting srcs/bins OK here?)
Keywords: V7 sources
Message-ID: <9104280530.05@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 91 14:55:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.060838.28918@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <694@tivoli.UUCP> <.PYASIC@xds13.ferranti.com> <9802@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
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In article <9802@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <.PYASIC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>In article <694@tivoli.UUCP> lark@tivoli.com (Lar Kaufman) writes:
>>Perhaps a balance could be struck here between people who want their
>>traditional channels of information to remain intact, the people who want
>>to snarf code, and so on. A common small-unix sources group.
>
>I bet it won't work.  MINIX is currently in a funny state, somewhere
>part way between V7 and P1003.1.  Coherent is probably in a difference
>place.  I suspect that programs that work on one won't work on the other
>so easily.

Coherent is somewhere between V7 and SYSV.  

>Also, the idea of comp.os.minix.code or whatever it may be called if it
>passes will be mostly patches, not whole programs.

My point exactly.  Most of the code that I have seen in comp.os.minix is
MINIX specific patches and fixes.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP