Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!lzsc!hcj
From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MINIX and NETWORK connections
Message-ID: <1318@lzsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 90 03:17:10 GMT
References: <22274.25dc6917@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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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?
>  
Re MINIX:
Multitasking: yes
Multiusers:yes, if you add the rs232 driver, PD, on network.
Run TOS form MINIX: no; but you can access TOS files read/write.

Useful:  YOu don't have to be a guru to use it.  It helps to know UNIX
to appreciate what you can do with it.

I find it most useful as a maintenance tool for TOS files systems.

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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