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From: ZPM014%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kai Henningsen)
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Date: 16 Jun 88 08:16:51 GMT
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In his message from Fri, 10 Jun 88 (by the way, why does the
LISTSERV software or whoever does it strip any message ID's?),
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) writes:

> past year.   One quick observation:  please test your programs before
> distributing them.  So far, only one program even compiled without
> manual intervention, and in most cases I can't even figure out what has
> to be done to make the programs compile, let alone run.  I have also
> received a stream of "improvements" to fgrep and other programs posted
> recently.  None of these actually worked.  Please test things a bit more
> carefully.

Well, did you ever hear of a software called MINIX 1.2?
It contains (at least) two source files which will not compile on my C
compiler, for the following reasons:

- tty.c contains the declaration
  PUBLIC scancode;
  since
  #define PUBLIC /* nothing */
  this will result in
  scancode;
  which is obviously wrong (use
  PUBLIC int scancode;
  instead).

- at_wini.c contains functions init_params(), copy_params() which are
  called via init_param(), copy_param() - obviously the author's C
  compiler ignores differences at the 11th char ...

These two caused me a lot of headache!

(I don't know if someone already spotted these, since I only read this
discussion since about one week.)
(If anybody cares, I am using Borland's TURBO C, which supports ANSI
standard.)

By the way, has anybody looked into porting MINIX to 80286 (i.e., AT)
protected mode? This would mean having a REAL MMU ...

Kai Henningsen <ZPM014@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>

"Bob, the MINIX 7.12 diffs just came over the net.
Minix will now work correctly on the Clay-XMP."
"Isn't that machine too small to support MINIX, John?
After all, it doesn't even have (insert your favorite feature)!"