kaba@acdhq.north.de (Kai Bartels) (02/24/91)
Hi!
What about creating subgroups that can hold minix-topics that are related
to a special hardware, like "Does minix run on my 386?" or "Is there a
drive available for my Amiga-harddrive-controller?" and so on?
Greetings, Kai
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bang: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!acdhq!kabacy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) (03/01/91)
In article <18baba4b.ARN1933@acdhq.north.de> kaba@acdhq.north.de writes: >Hi! > >What about creating subgroups that can hold minix-topics that are related >to a special hardware, like "Does minix run on my 386?" or "Is there a >drive available for my Amiga-harddrive-controller?" and so on? IMHO, having newsgroups like comp.os.minix.atari or comp.os.minix.mac would tend to fragment comp.os.minix without much benefit. Much of the traffic here is not machine specific. Besides, the goal should be to make Minix as similar as possible between platforms- not to make machine specific add ons. A group like comp.os.minix.sources, however, would make sense. It would make the task of archiving sources a bit easier. People who are not interested in the sources do not have to read the group. BTW, if you notice, much of the sources posted here tend not to be platform specific. Origami, the last big post, is an editor. I would think that origami couldn't care less where it is run. Conway Yee, N2JWQ yee@ming.mipg.upenn.edu (preferred) 231 S. Melville St. cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (forwarded to above) Philadelphia, Pa 19139 yee@bnlx26.nsls.bnl.gov (rarely checked) (215) 386-1312
overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) (03/02/91)
In article <18baba4b.ARN1933@acdhq.north.de> kaba@acdhq.north.de writes: >What about creating subgroups that can hold minix-topics that are related >to a special hardware, like "Does minix run on my 386?" or "Is there a >drive available for my Amiga-harddrive-controller?" and so on? ... Again ... This is not logical. While there are many machine-dependent issues, many of them have implications across ALL machines. Minix is a Portable Operating System, isn't it? It runs on 4 processor platforms (Intel, NS32K, M68k, SPARC) which is more than you can say for 95% of the operating systems out there. The two case questions you mentioned are best handled in the Commonly Asked Questions postings, but nobody really reads those. I don't think splitting comp.os.minix along processor lines would be beneficial. I believe it would create a LOT of cross-posting which would wreak havoc on the 400-odd mailing list subscribers (they'd get to read it N times, where N is the number of groups a given message is cross-posted to). YUK! Besides, the volume of comp.os.minix these days is only about 2 dozen articles a day, on the average. That's not all that bad, really. Judicious use of 'kill' or kill files makes it quite manageable. -- Glen Overby <overby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)