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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: To minix or not to minix
Summary: Go buy it, it fun, and its UNIX(r)
Message-ID: <413@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 15:11:59 GMT
References: <621@oracle.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <621@oracle.UUCP>, sbulchan@oracle.uucp (Sanjay Bulchandani) writes:
> Could someone enumerate what minix can do that DOS can't ? I'm dying
> to go buy myself a copy of minix but need some justification other than just
> fun.

First off, Minix is FUN.
Secondly, Minix is UNIX(r).  It multitasks, looks and feels like UNIX.
Thirdly, It gives you direct access to the disks.  Anything you could
	do as as root in a real UNIX, you can do here.  Me I like patching
	/dev/hd0, which is the boot sector of the hard disk and changing
	the partition table.
Fourth, You can waste endless hours porting UNIX programs to it.

In short, Try it, You'll like it.

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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