Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!VAX1!benton From: benton@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Kevin Benton) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Should I acquire minix? Message-ID: <75454@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 9 Jan 90 19:43:01 GMT References: <5883@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: benton@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Kevin Benton) Distribution: comp Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio Lines: 20 For those of you who are wondering, Minix is NOT a full implementation of System V or BSD. You can't get csh (yet), and it doesn't even support execution in extended memory for the 386 (from what I know). Version 1.5.0 is the latest for the PC, and if you want to run DOS in a window, forget it. Minix is, however, Version 7 Unix (by definition) and completely written without recourse from AT&T, so we don't need all the licensing garbage... Minix comes with complete source code, all the way down to the boot block for the disk that starts Minix. This allows you to experiment with what Minix does and how it operates. Minix is NOT (yet at least) intended to be a full implementation of Unix. Minix is intended to be used as an operating system programmers learning tool. If you'd like more information, I'd suggest you pick up a book called "Operating System Design and Implementation" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, published by Prentice-Hall. If your library doesn't have it, you know where you can get it... Kevin Benton benton@vax1.cc.uakron.edu "Kevin Benton"@1:157/516.0@fidonet.org