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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: MINIX and NETWORK connections
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Date: 19 Feb 90 06:25:19 GMT
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In article <22274.25dc6917@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> whitten@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>After reading thru the MINIX newsgroup, my intrest about ST MINIX has
>really grown...  I would love to hear from anyone out there that has
>purchased the package, as well as anyone else who has two cents to
>put in.  Specifically, does it support multitasking, multiple users,
>that kind of thing?  Can you still run TOS programs from inside it?  
>Would you consider it useful to people who aren't real unix gurus?

I haven't seen it done, but someone posted here a while back about
getting TOS executable files to execute under Minix. It's probably
a doable thing, but not advertised as a standard feature of Minix.
Heck, you could kludge up a library that converted Beckemeyer's
RTX system calls to Minix calls, then you'd *really* have some fun.

Oh, other question - yeah, Minix is multi-user and multi-tasking.
Version 7 Unix. 
> 
>Also, along that same lines, what about Dave's Multitasking C-Shell?
>Can it do any of the aforementioned neato-keen stuff?
>
Dave's stuff can do multi-tasking for sure; I've played with Micro-RTX
a little bit now. I'm not really interested in trying to make my ST
into a multi-user box, and I don't have the MT C-Shell, so can't
answer whether it's multi-user  or not. Don't see why not, tho.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan