Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix's Direction (was Re: Brucee's opus) Message-ID: <13741@ncoast.ORG> Date: 10 Jun 89 18:32:45 GMT References: <16497@louie.udel.EDU> <11989@bcsaic.UUCP> <2775@munnari.oz> <798@gara.une.oz> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 21 As quoted from <798@gara.une.oz> by wtoomey@gara.une.oz (Warren Toomey): +--------------- | Therefore, I propose that Minix be broken into two parts. One, a simple | static version of Minix, such as 1.3, to be used to teach about | operating systems, and based on the XT or ST. The other, a continually | evolving system, to keep everybody else happy. This should be ported to | many machines, like the ST, '286 & '386 etc, and hopefully should mean | that all the machine dependencies will reside in only a few files in the | kernel/mm/fs/etc. +--------------- If you're so interested in working on a PDist "real Unix", maybe you should send a note to rms@prep.ai.mit.edu. Dr. Tanenbaum has made it clear that Minix is intended for educational use only. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser