zebr360@ut-emx.uucp (Jerry Heyman) (03/23/91)
In article <1991Mar19.150309.4930@parc.xerox.com> you write: > >Minix seems to be a nice little package, and the cost is reasonable, but what >nifty tools (those _NOT_ supplied with the Minix package, but written by >Minix users) exist to make Minix something more than a learning tool? > TCP/IP, UUCP? Last I heard, someone was working on it. > Csh? I'm strongly thingking of porting Matt Dillon's (or whoever it is that wrote the latest version) of AmigaDos csh to minix. > Hard disk support? The latest kernel I got from Steven Reiz (who di the port) has support for the SCSI drivers. Since I don't have a harddisk, can't tell you how good it is. > How's the C compiler? Been trying to find out. In the process of building a new filesystem so that the compiler can be loaded under /usr instead of /user. (Wish I had a hard disk) > What's meant by ``ethernet >support'' (mentioned in the manual supplied with the MS-DOS demo package). Can't answer that one. >Btw, is there a demo minix available via anonymous ftp for the amiga? > >Would some kind person out there familiar with Amiga-Minix let me know if it's >worth the money and effort to go the minix route, or if I'm better off hanging >with AmigaOS and SKsh or Csh5.0 (and waiting for C= to release SysVr4 for the >2000). > If you want source, and you always wanted to muck around the internals of an operating system - its a pretty good package. Remember, Tannenbaum NEVER meant for it to be a commercial product. >Please reply via email. > >Thanks! > >--Brian >----- >Brian Talley >email: talley@arisia.xerox.com -or- bkt.wbst207v@xerox.com >Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything Xerox says or does! jerry -- Jerry Heyman by day: IBM PSP, AIX Development zebr360@emx.utexas.edu by nite: Adjunct Lecturer at St. Edward's Univ. *All comments are my own and should not be construed to represent any one else