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Re: Is MINIX on the PC532 dead?

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From: Bruce.Evans
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 04:22
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In article <m0jno75-00000DC@ditka.Chicago.COM> kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes:
>For example, when the ksh clone was posted I thought, "great!"  But
>after wasting a few hours I came to realize that I also need ESTDIO to
>get ksh working.  So, the next day I grudgingly went on a scavenger
>hunt to find this piece, and eventually got it on my machine.  Then I
>tried to build it and found I needed to fiddle a bit.  At that point I
>gave up, partly lack of time, partly lack of interest.

Why stop at a weak ksh clone? I use bash 1.08. Sure, it required fiddling
to get it to work. The diffs are 12K (plus probably a few hundred K of
accuulated Minix customizations. It's hard to know exactly which ones bash
depends on).
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au
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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Is MINIX on the PC532 dead?
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.042201.5016@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 16 Jun 91 04:22:01 GMT
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