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- Subject: Re: xfs and such
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 5:23:10 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9402232119.AA04081@math.uni-muenster.de>; from "Julian Reschke" at Feb 23, 94 10:19 pm
- Message-Id: <9402260423.AA00596@jelal.north.de>
-
- Julian Reschke writes:
- > From oytix!olis.isc.north.de!terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu!mint-request Sat Feb 26 01:34:08 1994
- >...
- > From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- > Message-Id: <9402232119.AA04081@math.uni-muenster.de>
- > Subject: Re: xfs and such
- > To: mint-request@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Michael Hohmuth)
-
- (btw do you know your mailer seems to use envelope-from instead of From: ?
- i guess entropy sees all your posts twice...)
-
- > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 22:19:26 MET DST
- > Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT-Liste)
- > In-Reply-To: <9402231554.AA00682@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de>; from "Michael Hohmuth" at Feb 23, 94 4:30 pm
- > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL0]
- >
- > > >
- > > > I think Mag!X does much of what you want, at least in the next release.
- > >
- > > Oh, does that mean that its source code will be freely available?
- > >
- > > Sorry, Claus, but I'm a bit tired of those repeated plugs in all sorts
- > > of communication channels for an operating system that I'd have to _buy_.
-
- well if it would at least come with source like BSDI...
- >
- > Michael, people have to buy MiNT/MTOS as well, as long as they are not
- > satisfied with multitasking TTPs and are able to compile it themselves.
-
- TTPs? real filesystems have x-bits :)
-
- > BTW: as software developer and one of the contributors to the MiNT lib
- > it wouldn't be a problem at all to become a Mag!x beta tester.
-
- hmm. well without (t)fork, execv etc and one global environment for
- all processes i think i'd still have a hard time running un*x sources...
- (or what about real tty devices? ptys? virtual consoles? networking?)
-
- i guess if those people had put their work in improving MiNT instead of
- reinventing it everyone would be better off now. oh well...
-
- cheers
- Juergen (step off soap box)
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- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
- -- Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
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