mb@ttidca.UUCP (02/02/87)
In article <1976@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes that he is unhappy with unix for several reasons. While some of his reasons for preferring minix might be valid, at least one is not. >Most of it is 75% or more done. It's ``proposed'' because my development >environment is a P/60 with hardware problems (crashes 3-5 times a day! )-: In particular, (while your experience may be different than mine), Those p60's and p35's I've worked with have all had hardware problems of the 'flaky' sort. Friends of mine report similarly. >Re: AT&T not supporting our ``toys'' (i.e. broken Unix System V): if they ^^^^^^ Please don't equate the system with the machine. While I too prefer 4.x BSD to SysV, I would not refer to SysV as "broken", just plain (in terms of features) - that along with an unexciting personality :-) My own personal computer contains an NSC ICM3216, and runs sys5 (the only os currently available for it). I'd like to get together with other owners of machines using this board to get MINIX up and running on it. While it would be a hefty job to do single handed, I think that with several people involved, after making it properly utilize the machines' memory management, it would not be unrealistic to have an additional set of goals that would include the addition of the necessary signal support for job control and possibly putting virtual crt support into the kernel. Anyone with ICM's interested in this project? On a separate, but related, subject: a while back someone posted a copy of a letter allegedly written by Mark Horton, listing in detail those portions of the 4.2 BSD distribution which contain no AT&T code and are in the public domain. It would be useful to know what portions of the 4.2 dist would be legal for use in MINIX. If anyone still has a copy of that, could you please mail me a copy?
cwruacm@cwruecmp.UUCP (02/05/87)
In article <371@ttidca.UUCP> mb@ttidca.UUCP (The of all Evil) writes:
++ On a separate, but related, subject: a while back someone posted a
++ copy of a letter allegedly written by Mark Horton, listing in detail
++ those portions of the 4.2 BSD distribution which contain no AT&T code
++ and are in the public domain. It would be useful to know what
++ portions of the 4.2 dist would be legal for use in MINIX. If anyone
++ still has a copy of that, could you please mail me a copy?
I would like a copy, too, please...
Chet Ramey
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