Questions about Minix

[Jerry Heyman]

In article <1991Mar19.150309.4930 at 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
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>Brian Talley
>email: talley at arisia.xerox.com   -or-   bkt.wbst207v at xerox.com
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jerry
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Jerry Heyman                  by day: IBM PSP, AIX Development
zebr360 at emx.utexas.edu        by nite: Adjunct Lecturer at St. Edward's Univ.

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