Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX VS XINU Message-ID: <1955@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 22:19:37 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.1955 Posted: Mon Jan 26 22:19:37 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Jan-87 06:02:43 EST References: <3862@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1053@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> <11890@sun.uucp> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 25 As quoted from <11890@sun.uucp> by brent%terra@Sun.COM (Brent Callaghan): +--------------- | In article <1053@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>, ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes: | > You apparently need a UNIX source license to get a XINU distribution | > tape from Prentice-Hall. This is a diasadvantage. | | Huh! If Xinu is not Unix then why the Unix license ? | | (I'm confused) +--------------- Because the distribution tape includes a XINU development environment: source for modified versions of pcc, as, and ld, among other things. Since they are derived from AT&T UNIX source, you need an AT&T UNIX source license to get them. And because it's so minimal as distributed, XINU is worthless without them (remember, XINU is a bare-bones OS intended to teach basic OS concepts). ++Brandon -- ____ ______________ / \ / __ __ __ \ Brandon S. Allbery !ncoast!allbery ___ | /__> / \ / \ aXcess Co., Consulting ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNET / \ | | `--, `--, 6615 Center St. #A1-105 (...@relay.CS.NET) | | \__/ \__/ \__/ Mentor, OH 44060-4101 \____/ \______________/ +1 216 781 6201