Re: xfs and such

[Juergen Lock <nox@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
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> 
> > > 
> > > 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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