ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) (03/24/89)
In a recent article, a poor soul was complaining how MINIX was messing up his life so to speak and costing him plenty. He obviously didn't get the picture that MINIX is a "teaching" operating system, much like Pascal was intended to be a "teaching" programming language. When one picks up a book that has questions at the end of the chapters, and one looks at them and sees such things as: "modify fs to enforce disk storage quotas" I think one should definitely get the impression that it is something to play and experiment with, not something to run "out of the box." If the guy doesn't have time for back- ups anyway, perhaps he has more time to re-key and rearrange everything instead. Frustration can make one somewhat irrational. Sigh..... And BTW, thanks, Andy, for giving us something to work with, not just: "So you wanna run UNIX, eh? Well, here -- run this and don't worry about how we did it, just use it..." That's fine for many instances, but for the intended audience, MINIX is WONDERFUL! The Amiga is quite complex, and would probably take quite some doing to port MINIX as a Kickstart replacement (to be read "probably the best way"), and wouldn't be so bad on top of Kickstart, but I'm hoping MINIX will eventually come to the Amiga. (Given enough time to concentrate on it, I could try it, but ... y'know... it would be sooooooo much EASIER if someone would do it for me! :^))