Port of MINIX to Unix-PC
Dave Mankins
dm at think.com
Fri Mar 15 14:18:01 AEST 1991
In article <5409 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> ac999321 at umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (ac999321) writes:
>Just curious; why would you want to port Minix to this system when you
>already have a better version of Unix running on it?
Two reasons:
``better'' is open to dispute --- quite a few of us
curmudgeons still look back fondly on Version 7,
with which MINIX is compatible.
complete sources --- even though I have quite enough
kernel hacking at work to keep me entertained, I
still itch to change a few things on the 3b1
(getting rid of the 14 character filename limit
is the biggest, adding a file-system driver that
talks across a serial line to the *really big*
disks at work, changing the screen driver so
windows can stretch from the top to the bottom of
the screen, and so they only have one-pixel
borders...)
--
david mankins (dm at think.com)
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