Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!sundc!netxcom!beattie From: beattie@netxcom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Future Patches To Make Minix Usable in the Real World Message-ID: <166@netxcom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 22:16:14 EDT Article-I.D.: netxcom.166 Posted: Tue Jun 9 22:16:14 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 02:12:16 EDT References: <114@jc3b21.UUCP> <161@netxcom.UUCP> <879@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: beattie@netxcom.UUCP (Brian Beattie) Lines: 28 In article <879@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) writes: >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. > >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/ You Are quite right and people have found it necessary to extend the language. The point I was trying to make was that MINIX was designed as a teaching tool, as such it looks like an excelent tool. I am however using it as a real operating system and as such it has a few problems. But I got source and I figure I can fix or "borrow" fixes that others post complaining that MINIX lacks this or that will get us nowhere. I would close by saying if you don't like the way MINIX works, change it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Beattie | Phone: (703)749-2365 NetExpress Communications, Inc. | uucp: seismo!sundc!netxcom!beattie 1953 Gallows Road, Suite 300 | Vienna,VA 22180 |