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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Advanced MINIX (and a fix for strip.c)
Message-ID: <9105201112@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 20 May 91 15:03:05 GMT
References: <52889@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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v892231@si.hhs.nl (Edvard Tuinder) wrote:
> 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
This is a main difference.  Thanks for pointing it out. I forgot to
mention this as clear as you did..

> crash yet. (knock knock)
Pfew! :-)

> 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....
(blush)

> You call it vaporware. it sure runs on my machine :-)
And on lots more.  I wonder why we named it "NLMUG Advanced MINIX" ??
					     ^^^^^

Fred.
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