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From: djm@etive.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Sun like OS for PC and MINIX
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Date: 27 Apr 89 18:22:43 GMT
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Reply-To: djm@etive.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy)
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In article <2944@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin)
 writes:
>
>	MINIX is NOT public domain software!!  MINIX is published software!
>It costs ~$80, and you can buy the OS and the source code from Prentice-Hall.
>For more info, peek at comp.os.minix.
>
>	One last note:  Minix isn't a general use OS yet.  It's a "toy"
>OS for people who are interested in working on OS's.  "Toy" is quoted because
>it's fully self-supporting with a C compiler and multi-tasking and it's own
>file-system and communications support, but it isn't meant for developing
>software.

OK - so I'm interested in `playing' with this `toy' on a PC - what sort of
requirements does it have in terms of memory, disk space and such ?
I just want a brief idea - if I decide to pursue the matter more (this has
nothing to do with work) I'll wade through comp.os.minix, but if people could
email me with some basic information I'll summarize the replies to the net.


Murff....

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D.J. Murphy
Chemistry Dept.
Univ. of Edinburgh

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