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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 08:15:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 08:15:30 1987
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Summary: UNIX didn't start out BSD-compatible either.

> I assume you left off the ":)" by accident. If GNU is supposed to be
> BSD 4.3 compatable it is a significantly more ambitious effort than
> MINIX. MINIX is a decent, small system for teaching. GNU is supposed
> to be suitable for research or commercial development.

Are you implying that Version 7 wasn't suitable for research or commercial
development? Remember... UNIX didn't start out as BSD 4.3 either. Thank
the gods (Thompson & Ritchie). BSD would never have run on the machines
available in the early and mid seventies, just as GNU won't run on the
personal computers available today.

> I have been looking for an inexpensive, Unix-based system for my
> personal use. MINIX isn't powerful enough to be useful to me, even 
> for hobby hacking. Hopefully GNU will be.

MINIX probably needs a better message passing mechanism, to avoid some of
the delays, and a bit of disk I/O optimisation. Otherwise it's quite a
usable system if you don't have anything better. Personally I prefer
AmigaDOS, but it's not designed to go anywhere... and MINIX is.

I will venture to predict that by the time GNU is out MINIX will be big
enough to satisfy you.
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