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From: mhorne@tekfdi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix program postings to the net
Message-ID: <762@tekfdi.TEK.COM>
Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 16:36:15 EST
Article-I.D.: tekfdi.762
Posted: Sat Feb  7 16:36:15 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 03:49:17 EST
References: <962@osiris.UUCP> <7619@utzoo.UUCP> <468@gouldsd.UUCP> <1750@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: mhorne@tekfdi.UUCP (Mike Horne)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: sources binaries bozos

In a previous article <1750@hoptoad.uucp>, John Gilmore writes:

>>      Swapping huge sources is best done with floppy-disk mailers
>> anyway. 
>
>Swapping huge sources is best done with 9-track magtapes, you mean.
>*Everybody* can read magtapes :-), while only bozos with IBM PC's can read
>floppies.  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled
>with magtapes."
>
>It may take a bit more pounding, but it has to sink into everyone's heads
>that MINIX IS NOT RESTRICTED TO IBM PC'S!!!  Binaries and floppies are
>not useful to all the Minix users.  Sources posted to the net are.  They're
>even useful to non-Minix users who have C compilers.

Here Here!  Though I know a fair number of those who wish to run Minix 
are IBM-PC 'bozos' and the like, there is a fair chunk of us who wish to
port and/or run selected sections of the Minix software.  I personally would
like to port it to a Tek 4404 AI Workstation (68010, 2 MB mem, 8 MB v-mem,
etc.) that is running Uniflex at this time.  Obviously I don't want to
have to un-arc a source in some funky IBM trash format.  Make the damn
things portable!  Not all of us believe in the Big Blue God.

>> shar wherever possible, tar for binaries, and no "arc" "pack" "squeeze"
>> "much" or "gulp" formats. 
>
>Shar forever -- and a simple one that doesn't indent rename
>inspect detect see-lect and reject.  "Just the facts, Ma'am."
>-- 
>John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu

BINGO!

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