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From: philip@axis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Postings binaries?
Message-ID: <189@axis.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 10:44:20 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.189
Posted: Sun Feb 22 10:44:20 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Feb-87 18:45:26 EST
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Summary: What group is this anyway ?

In article <2103@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP writes:
> And, of course, the poor schmucks who don't have C compilers (and probably
> don't wash behind the ears, either) and who don't have tftp can go to hell,
> right?
> 
> I don't have a C compiler.  Kindly don't segregate me or the fur will fly.
> Binaries are better than nothing.

Not washing behind your ears is your privilige.
Anyone having, and using ftp will probably get what they deserve.

Anyone reading (and contributing to) this group is supposed to know what
the group is about.
It is about a system called MINIX. This system is a V7 look alike, and comes
complete with lots of nice utilities - INCLUDING A C COMPILER.

Contrary to current (misinformed) oppinion within this group, the system
is intended as a teaching aid for OS courses. It runs on IBM PC's.

For those who havn't been able to buy the book (or who are to mean to try)
MINIX is not:

	A full blown replacement for System 5.3 or BSD4.3
	It does not run on your 'superbox' where superbox <> IBM PC
	It will not support 437 users
	It does not use BIOS (nor should it)

Discussions about directions of stack growth on a fuddledip Mk7.2 processor
do not belong in this group, nor do discussions about posting of magabyte
binaries. Those of you who know nothing about 8088 processors should perhaps
borrow/steal/buy a reference manual before insisting that this processor
is not capable of executing more than three consecutive instructions,
can not support any form of memory management, will not run MINIX or even
PC-DOS.

Can we PLEASE restrict discussions here to something useful, and relavent ?
Can I also suggest that people actually BUY THE BOOK ?
Andy has worked quite hard in producing both the book, and the system.
They are both available at quite reasonable prices - so reasonable
that I doubt that Andy is going to become a millionaire overnight from
his hard work - it must be terribly dissapointing to see several years
hard work being written off by people who have not read the book, seen the
sources, nor taken more that 10 seconds to find out what they are talking
about.

Philip