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From: steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix 1.2 Bustedness
Message-ID: <1926@basser.oz>
Date: 8 Apr 89 17:45:08 GMT
References: <11641@ut-emx.UUCP> <7749@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <7749@killer.Dallas.TX.US> wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul) writes:
>In article <11641@ut-emx.UUCP> kjm@ut-emx.UUCP (kjm) writes:
>>development environment for some personal projects.  I cannot afford to
>>own a $100+ toy.  If I can't get it to use my hard disk, I'm going to have
>>to send it back, and be stuck with MS-GROSS (which at least can drive the
>>hard disks)...
>
>Let us know if you can find another, more stable UNIX-like environment for
>a PC, AT MINIX PRICES!

While it may seem out of place in this newsgroup, the MKS Toolkit is in
similar price range to Minix (around $150), and has many things missing
from Minix, such as awk, vi, yacc, ksh, etc. Now it is missing a C
compiler, so add extra for that, and is not multitasking.

So, if you want a "stable UNIX-like environment for a PC", try it. I you want
a fun OS to hack which includes the full sources, try Minix.