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From: forrest@blia.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug Fixes to Minix
Message-ID: <2750@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 16:46:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 16:46:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 04:17:39 EDT
Organization: Britton Lee, Berkeley, CA
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I've been reading this group with great interest but I haven't
acquired the software yet because I don't have the patience to
put up with the kinds of problems a version 1 product of this
complexity is bound to have. Some people enjoy this kind of hacking.
I don't. I have been saving most of the bug reports/fixes thinking that
when they will be useful when I do get around to using Minix.

I'm wondering if this is worthwhile. I would think that since Tannenbaum
reads this group he'll incorporate the fixes posted here. Therefore,
some future version of Mi,ix will contain the fixes, or will it?
Will there be a Minix 2.0 (or any other number) that will contain
fixes to all the problems we've heard about? (I'm especially concerned
about the winchester driver problems.) Or, will Minix truely emulate
Unix, including the problems of getting fixes into some
kind of standard distribution.

Jon Forrest
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