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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stoopid *nix freaks!
Keywords: O/S, OS/2, minix
Message-ID: <25e76ff6.6f6b@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 90 05:41:10 GMT
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Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <23071@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>In article <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>>OS/2 is the first REAL operating system for personal computers.  
>>
>>John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
>>jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
>>ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.
>
>So you don't think that minix is a real operating system?  Could have
>suprised me.  It is Unix version 7!  Just because the source code is
>available doesn't make it bad.  Just because it is inexpensive doesn't
>make it "unreal".  Just because you can talk to the author right here by
>e-mail doesn't make it unprofessional.  Just because there is a whole
>newsgroup for minix doesn't mean there isn't software available.  As a
>matter of fact, all of the things I have listed are _ADVANTAGES_!

Hey, I really didn't mean to imply anything bad about Minix.  I wouldn't
have wasted my .sig on it if I didn't think it was worth talking about!
It is lean and clean, which can't be said for OS/2.  But in saying that,
we are also saying that there are a lot of things it doesn't have that
we usually want, such as large memory model, support for the math chip
in context switches, process swapping, possibly virtual (paged to disk)
memory, NFS, a GUI, and so on.

Really, I wasn't trying to slight Minix, I was bemoaning the state of OS/2.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.