Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!polyslo!jdudeck From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Andy's comments on 1.5 Message-ID: <25e76a05.69c5@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 25 Feb 90 05:15:49 GMT References: <11127@nigel.udel.EDU> <5441@star.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 21 AST writes: >...and there will be 600 pages of paper along with it, including an up-to-date >listing. Having just completed an OS course in which we studied the source code, with an eye to finding bugs (the prof. even offered extra credit to anyone who could find a hole it it that would allow a non-superuser to see raw disk or ram...no one found any), I would say that there is a definite value to a paper listing of Minix. Considering the primary purpose of Minix, which is learning about operating systems, the source listing is probably one of its biggest assets. On the other hand, not all who purchase Minix are going to need or want the source listings, and also not all who want the source listings (such as students) are going to want to buy the disks. It seems to me that the most practical arrangement would be to have the media, the listing, and Andy's book on OS's be separate products. That's just my opinion. -- 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.