overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) (06/04/90)
In article <1927@cod.NOSC.MIL> hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) writes: >What you claim, Minix is a Unix look a like but I can't play >adventure on it. :-) Well we will just have to correct this. I've always found writing C programs with lots of indirect pointer operations to be a rather interesting adventure :-) >I suppose I am to submit this to the referee group, but I don't >mind the other Net readers getting a preview too. Besides I can't >find where I save their E-mail address at and I didn't find it >in the Minix Information sheet. Besides I am not sure I like >this referee stuff, all the code that was being posted to this >group is drying up and I haven't seen the referee group release >any stuff since it was created. I (thought) I posted the Referee's group blurb the same time as the Info Sheet. Anyway, it's minix-ref@plains.nodak.edu (aka "plains" on Bitnet and UUCP). The referees group is a passive structure; they're only there for feedback to the author. I origionally envisioned it as, like you mention, putting their "stomp of approval" on programs by releasing them on an "official" basis (a sort of a pseudo-moderated sources channel), but it didn't work out that way. -- Glen Overby <overby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)