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[Karl Larsen]

David Curtis wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>   
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>     
>>> Florian Diesch wrote:
>>>       
>>>> "Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>> .
>>>>>           
>>>>>>     Mark I am tired of you making every effort to find something to 
>>>>>> correct that I said. Yes I know about MINNIX and it was VERY Expensive. 
>>>>>> Way out of my price range and it really didn't use the 88386 chip. It 
>>>>>> did some strange things.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I'm not making any effort.  It's not like I have time to correct you, 
>>>>> but someone needs to.  If you don't know anything about what you're 
>>>>> talking about, then DON'T.  AFAIK, MINIX wasn't particularly expensive, 
>>>>> but it was also a /research/ OS and not for general use.  
>>>>>           
>>>> Minix is a Unix-like OS for educational purpose made by Andrew
>>>> S. Tanenbaum.
>>>>
>>>> When Linux was invented there were at least three commercial Unices
>>>> for i386 (SCO Unix, Scenix and Xenix), and 386BSD was in development.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Florian
>>>>         
>>> Yeah, you're right. I realized later on that Xenix did have a x86 
>>> version along with SCO.  I've never heard of Scenix, though.  But it 
>>> does make me interested enough to check into it.
>>>
>>> At the time, though, a good portion of the Unix OS's were on mainframes, 
>>> and since I learned most of my C and PASCAL programming on one, the Unix 
>>> availability on the x86 chipset didn't really register.  In the 80s I 
>>> was your typical self-absorbed teen. :)
>>>       
>> Don't forget A/UX! (anyone even know how to get a copy of that??)
>>
>>     
> http://www.aux-penelope.com/downloads.htm
>
> For those of you with an old mac in the closet, and no social life!
>
> And also Minix, the micro-kernel unix, is getting some interest outside 
> of academia.
>
> http://www.minix3.org/
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>   
    The only time I saw MINIX was on a church friends luggable computer. 
This was a big box and all the components were standard size. He would 
hire out to big software writers and in a motel room write parts of say, 
a Hotel register program. The MINIX was for the occasion when the 
requirement was for a UNIX program.

    He helped me a lot learning C programming. He was a full expert.

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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