Subj : IBM PS/2 Model 25 questions
To   : mark lewis
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Feb 13 2016 09:31:03

  Re: IBM PS/2 Model 25 questions
  By: mark lewis to Kurt Weiske on Fri Feb 12 2016 07:41 pm

 ML> yup... i ran minix and i think another one maaaannny moons ago... i wish i
 ML> had today's knowledge and understanding back then... it would have been
 ML> much easier... but then again, IIRC, minix is what lead to today's linux
 ML> for various reasons ;)

I had a job where I had hardware to spare and time to kill. Got a MINIX server
running on a 286/12 with 2 megabytes of memory and a 32 megabyte hard disk.
When I was done with it, it was running a web server, POP and SMTP email and a
slave DNS server. It sat under my desk, when the hard drive churned I knew I'd
gotten mail!

I loved Minix for the source code. I learned more about networking by reading
through the source code than I did from a couple of textbooks I'd had.
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