Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: Minix on a ST, GUI for MINIX?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.234413.4827@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 23:44:13 GMT


I think that MGR sort-of wants a BSD environment. In any case, Eric
Smith wrote MiNT for the Atari ST to be incredibly BSD-like, including
job control, fifos, etc. etc. (not bad for an extender to an OS based
on CP/M!). Surely, if one programmer could do all that for GEMDOS,
it would not be so hard for a group of people to do the same for Minix.
On the plus side, MiNT reads and writes to Minix partitions from GEMDOS,
which is very nice. How hard would it be to BSD-ize Minix (I don't have
it yet, just the demo).

David
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