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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Need a patch for Minix/ST 1.1
Summary: No such thing as a real Usable version of Minix
Message-ID: <801@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 89 13:57:05 GMT
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In article <9199@saturn.ucsc.edu>, sandy47@ucsco.UCSC.EDU (90784000) writes:
> 
> same questions, mostly from new users like myself.  I have also seen the many
> responses from experts which are of a derisive nature toward these questions.

	I don't recall much that I would call derisive in this newsgroup.
> 
> 
> I too would like to pay someone for a real, usable version of Minix-ST with 
> the latest patches installed, and I think that the number of people who

I have previously posted a complete MINIX Kernel.

I and others have surely added to the MINIX ST functionallity.
Unfortunately, I would not call the resulting product "real, usable version"
and we have tried.  It is a good teaching tool.  It is great for maintaining
the hard disk for TOS.

However, MINIX remains unstable, slow, and limited.  Its message passing
architecture is cute, neatly avoids the ATT patents, and SLOW and BUGGY.



Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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