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From: rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Robert Regn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Proposed solution to PS/2 problems - Adrie Koolen
Message-ID: <824@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 1 Feb 89 18:17:28 GMT
References: <1981@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: IMMD I, University of Erlangen, W-Erlangen
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum):
> Sort of out of the blue, a got a letter from a student in Eindhoven (in Holland)
> named Adrie Koolen who has had MINIX running on a PS/2 model 60 for a year.
> He is not on any net and knows nothing about all our discussions.  He also has
> implemented a large number of 1.3 features on his own, including extended
> memory for the AT, bad block handling, softscrolling, RS232, LED control,
> foreign keyboard support, bad block handling, and other things.  He also
> built a distributed system for diskless MINIX workstations.  Furthermore
> he documented all of this in great detail (in Dutch).  When he turned it
> in, his teachers said it was dumb and a waste of time.  They felt he ought
> to go back to something important (like learning how to solder wires together?).

Most of Adrie's features minix 1.3 has now, too.

But what about diskless MINIX workstations ?? How is it implemented ?
Is a remote mount possible ?
This could be great for a teaching net of cheap PC's in an university.
Can we (=people on the net) see this code and also the dutch documentation ??

Robert Regn
rtregn@faui32.uucp
rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de