Re: Minix and Tanenbaum
By: Knight to physalis17 on Thu Nov 20 2014 08:33 am
Kn> Absolutely true. Around that time I was using System V, and was porting
Kn> software over to it so that it would compile and run. I owned an IBM XT
Kn> (8088) running DOS and I had wished I could run a *nix flavour. So, of
Kn> course minix ran GREAT on it.
About that time, I ran a SCO XENIX system at work -- it ran a reportwriter
system running on an AS/400. I spent a week in Santa Cruz getting trained on
it, and visiting a local sysop who was at school at UC Santa Cruz at the time.
Given that it was a college town, we both dined on my per-diem for a week, got
a suntan (which both angered and confused my boss) and got to see the
instructor playing piano at a jazz bar down the road. Good times.
I used to code in vanilla ANSI C, and have been looking for an excuse to get
back into coding. I wonder if I could port Fido BBS to MINIX? :)
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