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From: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,rec.ham-radio,comp.windows.x,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MINIX - STD EXTENSIONS
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 00:11:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 00:11:08 1987
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In article <475@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>...concentrate on simpler things like
>maybe making it a bit more portable, robust, and adding some of our favorite
>AT&T-like tools. Ferget the TCP/IP - the basics like 'sed' and 'lex' are
>a lot more likely to be missed.

I suppose it's all a matter of your perspective.  Phil and I (and the other
folks who've been helping beat on our code) have a working TCP/IP package
running under MS-Dos.  Neither of us like MS-Dos.  We see Minix as a neat
next step for the package, in that it will allow us to "do things right"
without having to write an OS in the process.  A full blown unix system with
TCP/IP isn't our goal.

I do indeed hope that someone works on sed, and lex... a driver that will talk
to other hard disk controller cards, and maybe even (oh gosh... here's a REAL
wet dream :-) an RS-232 driver and uucp.  In the meantime, some of us will be
working on TCP/IP.
-- 

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