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- From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke)
- Subject: Re: Minix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.082247.8319@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
- Organization: Institut f. Arbeitsphysiologie a.d. Uni Dortmund
- References: <1992Nov11.061101.11967@zooid.guild.org> <1992Nov11.221632.25754@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 08:22:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.221632.25754@wam.umd.edu> humphrie@wam.umd.edu (James B. Humphries) writes:
- >Anyone who uses, knows about, has, or wants to sell MINIX please email me.
- >
- >I'd like to have MINIX for the ST but I need to know stuff about it.
- If you are not eager to do kernel developing, probably you want to know
- about MiNT, which is much more pleasant to use on the ST.
- >
- >How UNIX is it? If selling, HOW MUCH? What is the recommended sys config for
- >running it? What can you do with it (multiuser? modem?)? Those are a few of
- >the questions that spring to mind.
- Minix is not much Unix, as it does not swap. Any process is memory
- resident. The 68000 processor is not very usable to program a real Unix
- or equivalent, as processes have to be in the same memory location for
- the duration of their execution.
- This limitation can remedied by having lots of memory. I would recommend
- twice as much as all processes you want to run together. As Minix is
- developed for the 8088 you may count 128kB for each process.
-
- For Multi-User application you should be warned that there is no
- protection against destructive actions buy other users on the ST. The
- protection is a bit better on the 8088.
- Also Minix is limited to the level of 'version 7', which is not what
- most unix users want.
- --
- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke,
- Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
- Ardeystrasse 67, D-4600 Dortmund 1, Tel. 0231-1084-257
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