Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!husc6!bloom-beacon!eichin From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Future Patches To Make Minix Usable in the Real World Message-ID: <879@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 18:55:18 EDT Article-I.D.: bloom-be.879 Posted: Tue Jun 9 18:55:18 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jun-87 04:56:29 EDT References: <114@jc3b21.UUCP> <161@netxcom.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 13 Summary: "Teaching Languages" In article <161@netxcom.UUCP> beattie@netxcom.UUCP (Brian Beattie) writes: >If you read the preface to the book I think you will find that MINIX was >intended as a teaching tool. In fact I think that Dr. Tanenbaum is very >suprised to find people trying to use MINIX for real. Gee, didn't someone once attribute a similar statement to N. Wirth, about Pascal? No I/O, just a teaching language, Really, No kidding! :-) Mark Eichin /Happy Hacking...........\ \.............Mark Eichin/