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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: MX2 is Pretty Cool
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Date: 19 Jan 89 03:19:51 GMT
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Say, this multi-tasker has really gotten a lot nicer in the year or
so since I last saw it. Thanks very much, Fred Brooks!

At this moment I'm posting news via KA9Q running as a subprocess
under MX2. This is pretty slick; I can leave the SMTP mail server
running all the time and still use my machine for local work. I
think a reasonable next step could be to move this KA9Q code into
a shared library, or at least pieces of it.

Is anyone else using this stuff? Minix is nice, with a real filesystem
and all, but it's too slow. Nifty programs like this make me believe
working with TOS isn't a lot cause after all...
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