[comp.os.minix] Misc Questions about Minix

rwsoukoreff@trillium.waterloo.edu (Rob Soukoreff) (02/05/91)

   Hello,

     I am interested in Minix, but before I rushed right out to purchase
it, I wanted to ask some questions about it.  I thought I'd ask you
people, as you all have used it, and aren't trying to sell it to me...

1.  Does the Minix package come with ALL of the source code for the system?
2.  Does Minix have virtual memory support, (on a 386)?
3.  Does Minix come with a C compiler, and Assembler, (again 386)?
4.  Does Minix support programs bigger than the Small format?
      ie. bigger than 64K program, 64K data.
5.  How does Minix compare to Coherent?
6.  How much Hard Drive space does Minix take-up?


    Thanks,
       Rob Soukoreff
       rwsoukoreff@trillium.uwaterloo.ca