Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: <3623@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 15 Mar 89 11:38:14 GMT References: <6157@cbmvax.UUCP> <473@laic.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14 In article <473@laic.UUCP>, darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes: > However, the purpose of MINIX is to provide a instructional base to OS > design, not just to be an alternate OS for micro users. That's the original intended purpose, maybe, but that's not waht most of the Minix hackers out there are using it for. A minix implementation that ran on top of exec (maybe even as a minix.library, so you could bind Minix binaries with some minimal startup code and launch them from the CLI) would be very useful... Why am I reminded of Pascal? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U`