MINIX 1.5 vs A/UX
Ray Terry
rterry at hpcuhc.cup.hp.com
Fri Jun 14 01:16:41 AEST 1991
>> Does anyone have experience with MINIX 1.5 by Andrew W. Tanenbaum
>> (marketed by Prentice Hall) for the Mac? I would like to have a
>> Unix-like environment on my Mac, but the purchase price for A/UX
>> is a little steep for personal use. MINIX 1.5 is only $127, which
>> is certainly appealing. It sounds "too good to be true", though!
>
>Yea, I have a whole term of experience. You don't want it. It bites.
>Crashes when you move the mouse too much (its VBL unrolls the stack frame
>to kick processes out when they exceed their quota and the mouse VBL
>interferes with it). Anyway, its skanky, and you don't want it.
Yes, I agree. MacMinix is a nice concept, but v1.5 has a lot of problems.
They are working on fixing the many Mac related bugs it in, but back in
February I was told "two weeks". Ummmm... In short, I purchased it back
in September and have gotten little use out of it since due to its many
bugs...
Ray
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