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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix mentioned in UNIX Today!
Summary: Your assumption is correct.
Message-ID: <2765@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 10:36:05 GMT
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In article <1785@cod.NOSC.MIL>, hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) writes:
> In article <2755@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
> > ...
> > 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?

I certainly am. That's what you get when you buy Minix, i.e. that's Minix.

> Because for those of us who watch this News group closely we do have

Assuming that everyone using Minix is on the net is unreasonable.

> a floating point compiler and library routines that runs under MINIX,

I saw a library package; I didn't see a compiler; maybe I missed
something? Some checks I have made indicate that about 8% of all
postings don't reach here.

I do recall loud complaints that the Dhrystone benchmark used a few
floating point operations in reporting its results.

> 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

I did not understand that these had been made a part of Minix. Is this
incorrect?

> And as for VI there is STEVIE (which is in the official Minix) and

According to the postings I have seen, Stevie is both buggy and is
substantially incomplete. Others experience has been enough to
discourage trying it out.

> ELVIS which was just recently posted to the Net.

Elvis looks promising (based on the postings, again) but it isn't
(a) in the Minix release or (b) adequately debugged.


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