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From: hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix mentioned in UNIX Today!
Summary: Minix does have floating point
Message-ID: <1785@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 13 Feb 90 01:25:41 GMT
References: <1990Feb2.160607.5903@DSUVAX.uucp> <15380004@hpfilis.HP.COM> <2755@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
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In article <2755@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
> In article <15380004@hpfilis.HP.COM>, larry@hpfilis.HP.COM writes:
> 
> > >6. WHAT PROGRAMS COME WITH MINIX
> > It seems there are some noteworthy omissions:
> >     awk
> >     cd
> >     vi
> 
> The cd command is a shell (in this case "sh") built-in, not a separate
> program, just as it is in all Unix-like systems.
> 
> Minix doesn't have lex or yacc either but their omission is really
> insignificant compared to the omission of floating point support
> (not even if you have hardware FP -- it's not in the compiler or the
> kernel).
> 

You must be restricting you answer to the offical version for MINIX?
Because for those of us who watch this News group closely we do have
a floating point compiler and library routines that runs under MINIX,
thanks to housel@ecn.purdue.edu <Peter Housel> who posted his work to
the Net some time back.

Also a Lex clone was posted as FLEX by V61%DHURZ1.BITNET <Ronald Lamprecht>

And a YACC was posted by David A. Clunie

And as for VI there is STEVIE (which is in the official Minix) and
ELVIS which was just recently posted to the Net.

Robert R. Hall
hall@nosc.mil