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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Status of V1.3
Message-ID: <85@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 02:38:06 GMT
References: <709@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <709@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
 >I am about to start making up the MINIX 1.3 distribution.  I would like to
 >get it to Prentice-Hall some time in the summer.  Do not construe that as a
 >promise.  Version 1.3 will contain many items that have already been posted
 >here, and many that have not been.  Among other features, 1.3 will have:
 >
 >          (lots of stuff deleted)
 >  - networking software for connecting MINIX machines on an Ethernet
 >          (lots of stuff deleted)
 
Will MINIX 1.3 have a "standard", "official" serial port driver?  It seems to
me that THAT would be the enhancement which would lift MINIX out of the 
toy (or "teaching tool") category into the realm of a really useful, working
OS.

Unfortunately, both of the drivers which were posted (Bing Bang and
Jim Paradis) had all these caveats and required other changes to the kernel.

MINIX needs an official, V7-compatible, AST-approved serial driver.
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