Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 21:34:04 GMT References: <6157@cbmvax.UUCP> <473@laic.UUCP> <3623@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Thomas Corzine) Distribution: comp Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 25 In-reply-to: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 15 Mar 89 11:38:14 GMT In article <3623@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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... Indeed. basically what I've been saying... Split the instructional from the practical... >Why am I reminded of Pascal? I have no idea. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.