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From: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski)
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Subject: Re: Info on Atari ST
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Date: 24 Apr 89 03:17:29 GMT
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In article <1071@psueea.UUCP> kirkenda@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
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=>  The internal structure of the Minix kernel is entirely different from that
=>  of any "real" Unix system.  Unix was written for efficiency; Minix was
=>  written for understandability and ease of modification.
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=>-- Steve Kirkendall
=>   uunet!tektronix!psu-cs!kirkenda

not to mention modularity, so that if you wanted, you could have the file
system handled on another machine (distributed environment).  The only problem
to be solved is writing the message sender and receiver for communication
to/from the remote server.