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From: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX extensions
Message-ID: <411@prairie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 13:13:22 EST
Article-I.D.: prairie.411
Posted: Sun Feb  1 13:13:22 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Feb-87 22:44:08 EST
References: <252@hqda-ai.UUCP> <1169@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Organization: Prairie Computing, Madison, Wisconsin
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Keywords: shared swapped bernoulli jobs

In article <1169@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (william E Davidsen) writes:
>In article <252@hqda-ai.UUCP> merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) writes:
>>to run uucp mail and usenet news on this beast, and it'll need all
>>the help it can get.
>
>Why? Those things seem to run just fine under Microport ($160) with no
>source, tricks, fiddling, etc.

   Those things run just fine under Microport because:

   a) Microport COMES with AT&T uucp already.

   b) Microport has a large model compiler.  Most of the news programs
	  are VERY large, and will not compile and link under small model,
	  let alone the Minix `tiny model' compiler.

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