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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Rs232 on Minix-ST
Message-ID: <1885@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Jan 89 15:48:33 GMT
References: <6422@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <6422@louie.udel.EDU> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>In the recently-posted rs232 addition to minix-st, a completely separate
>driver and kernel task is used for rs232.  I had hoped it could be combined
>with the tty driver.  Aren't we trying to keep Minix small?  Is there likely
>to be an "official" rs232 driver for minix-st, perhaps somewhat related to
>the PC version.  

I still believe in small-is-beautiful, but I am increasingly alone.  But
I don't give up easily.  There will certainly not be an official RS-232
driver for the Atari from me.  If Johan decides to do one, that will be
reasonably official, but I don't think he has time now.  In practice this
means there won't be an official one for the next half year or more.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)