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Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (LONG)

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From: Deven Corzine
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1989 21:34

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In article <3623@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
 >In article <473@laic.UUCP>, darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
 >> However, the purpose of MINIX is to provide a instructional base to OS
 >> design, not just to be an alternate OS for micro users.

 >That's the original intended purpose, maybe, but that's not waht most of
 >the Minix hackers out there are using it for. A minix implementation that
 >ran on top of exec (maybe even as a minix.library, so you could bind Minix
 >binaries with some minimal startup code and launch them from the CLI) would
 >be very useful...

Indeed.  basically what I've been saying...  Split the instructional
from the practical...

 >Why am I reminded of Pascal?

I have no idea.

Deven

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From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine)
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Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS?  (*LONG*)
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