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From: v892231@si.hhs.nl (Edvard Tuinder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Advanced MINIX (and a fix for strip.c)
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Date: 7 May 91 19:53:10 GMT
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Glen Overby wrote:
> 
> In article <4379@stl.stc.co.uk> agm@daphne.stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
>  writes:
> >Can anyone tell me how I can get hold of NLMUG Advanced MINIX over the
> >net (or even what it is)?
> 
> `Advanced MINIX' is Fred van Kempen's digested collection of "everything"
> that has been distributed to the Net.  In a recent (electronic)
> conversation, Fred agreed with my assertion that you can get most of what is
> in AM by sucking dry to your nearby archive bit-bucket and compiling up
> everything (it just wouldn't be "packaged").
> 
> Thus, the difference between AM and, say, my Plains archive is that AM has
> Fred's name on your (and Andy's) bits, while on Plains your name is still on
> the sources.
Well that maybe true, but from my experience with using Advanced MINIX
and my own updates from the net, I do notice some changes.
One of the most noticable things is ``the look'' of the sources. It is not
just one great bag of seperate programs (patches), but it is all
worked out together. It works! Moreover, with AM I haven't had a single
crash yet. (knock knock)
BTW, not all in AM is from the net, quite a few changes come from Fred.
For example the sinit/init implementation, the totally redone serial
driver. I can go on for a while here....

> Fred has frequently promised to make his collection available to the net,
> the first being about a year ago when he asked me to carry it on Plains.  I
> have yet to see the bits.  Maybe Fred could just call it "Advanced
> Vaporware", thus avoiding trademark problems with using the name "MINIX" and
> copyright problems with distributing Minix's sources.  It's also a LOT
> easier to distribute vaporware :-)
You call it vaporware. it sure runs on my machine :-)

						Edvard
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