Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix Questions...Eagerly Awaiting MacMINIX!!!! Message-ID: <2960@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 16 Feb 90 11:25:09 GMT References: <11067@nigel.udel.EDU> <1990Feb15.193347.2060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 48 In article <1990Feb15.193347.2060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) writes: >Let me address some of the issues, and questions re >MacMINIX before things reach too fevered of a pitch. Thanx, they were appreciated ! >Second, floating point will probably not be available as part of the >release but, as mentioned elsewhere, can be added. Please keep If the source is available (at extra cost) for the compiler, it's not _THAT_ hard (he he) to add FP. (At least SANE or FPU calls) >Third, for whatever reason, people seem to be interested in >writing stand alone Macintosh software using MacMINIX. >Buy Lightspeed C instead. You will be a lot happier. That is I _HAVE_ THINK C. I even have MPW. I don't like MPW, and I miss scripting and awk and... in THINK. I'm gonna use MacMINIX as a command-line shell to switch in&out to when running THINK C. And maybe I'm gonna do something more. After all, more than once I've wanted source for the V.2-4.3 clone I'm currently administrating... >Last, integrating the Mac file system. I am working on this now. Might I suggest the capability of adding the Mac fs as external devices (like, /dev/hfs0, /dev/hfs1 ...) and make them mountable with mount ? Maybe even /dev/SCSI0, /dev/SCSI1 ... /dev/SCSI6, and sockets, and RPC (why not RPC2 while we're at it) and... Oh. Sorry. I think I got out of hand :-) >for what you want. If not, then the source code is there too. Just what MINIX is all about... >same as the new 1.5 distribution. I will post a final list of >utilities when there is one if there is that much interest. I'm interested, at least. h+ -- --- Stay alert ! - Trust no one ! - Keep your laser handy ! --- h+@nada.kth.se == h+@proxxi.se == Jon Watte longer .sig available on request