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From: ast@botter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bug Fixes to Minix
Message-ID: <1197@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 04:43:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  4 04:43:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 07:58:22 EDT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <2750@blia.BLI.COM> forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) writes:
>I would think that since Tannenbaum (sic)
>reads this group he'll incorporate the fixes posted here. 

Probably a good idea to comment on this.

1. I will certainly attempt to correct things that are indisputably bugs.
   However, many of the postings relate to enhancements, rather than bugs.
   A few of these are things that are true V7 and were left out of MINIX
   for one reason or another.  I may or may not include them.  Others are
   attempts to use the 286 MMU, be more Berkeley like, etc.  I doubt that
   I can find the time to carefully check out and include these.

2. Part of the value of the system is that the book and software
   correspond.  Major changes of any kind reduce this value, and since
   issuing a revised book is out of the question before 1992, I am hesitant
   to make major structural changes.

3. Conclusion:  There is much to be said for monitoring this group and
   saving all the things that you consider interesting because there is
   no guarantee they will ever be included in an official release, even if
   they are valid improvements.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)