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From: jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: MINIX
Message-ID: <1991May30.211409.307@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 30 May 91 21:14:09 GMT
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breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen) writes:
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> I have found some MINIX archives on ab20. Is there a PD version of MINIX?
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> greetings
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> Erwin van Breemen
Well if your consider Berkely Unix 4.4 a really maxed out version of
MINIX...the answer is YES sort of. In around 3-4 months Berkeley is
releasing the full 4.4 dist into the public domain. There is no AT&T
code in it. It will be running the mach kernel. Matt Dillon has
personally sworn to convert it over to the Amiga once the sources are
released. If it can be done, Matt can do it.
Jim
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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: MINIX
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Date: 31 May 91 13:38:32 GMT
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In article <1991May30.211409.307@swbatl.sbc.com> jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444) writes:
>Well if your consider Berkely Unix 4.4 a really maxed out version of
>MINIX...the answer is YES sort of. In around 3-4 months Berkeley is
>releasing the full 4.4 dist into the public domain. There is no AT&T
>code in it. It will be running the mach kernel.
This is wrong. It will not be running the Mach kernel, though certain
parts of Mach, such as the VM system, have been adopted. There will
still be AT&T code in the distribution. CSRG is working as hard as they
can to remove it, but they are not miracle workers.
--
``You shoot John Sununu. Twice.''
Chet Ramey Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Case Western Reserve University NeXT Mail: chet@macbeth.INS.CWRU.Edu
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