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From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: AUTHOR SPEAKS: '532 Manifesto
Keywords: cheap nsc 532
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Date: 18 Nov 88 13:00:18 GMT
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In article <7885@nsc.nsc.com> rfg@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>
>Well, there already a port of XINU to the 3200's series available.  I have it
>here in my hot little hands.  Actually, I think that the best thing to do
>would be to use the XINU kernel, and then for the utilities use the sum of
>MINIX, XINU, and GNU, taking the best pieces where there are overlaps.

Uhm.... Either I'm missing something, or somebody else is.
Two points:
- Minix is a complete, full-blown operating system. I would not
  be surprised if it ran *faster* than either BSD or sysV.
  The only drawbacks are that it doesn't have the fast filesystem
  (but neither has sysV) and  that it doesn't have VM (but that makes
  it faster, and who needs VM anyway:-)
- XINU, on the other hand, was a toy operating system the last time
  I looked. Actually, the term 'monitor' was probably better than
  'operating system'. Fine for teaching classes, not something you
  would want to do serious work on.
  (Note however that I've only looked at the old PDP-11 XINU. Ignore
  this comment if it has substantially improved since then).
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