warren
you missunderstood my point , I didn't imply it has at&t code !, what I
meant is it has the look and feel of at&t unix and indeed it was modeled (if
you prefer instead of derived :-) ) after unix 6 as per the author and the
way it look and feel.
as for the book , yup I read both the original book and the second one ,
that's what I meant it's an educational project oriented towards students.
cheers
zmkm
From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org>
To: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Getting UNIXs for 16-bit 8086
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:28:41 +1000
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:29:11PM +0000, zmkm zmkm wrote:
actually [Minix is] indeed derived from at&t
unix 6 also it feels closer
to
the actual old unix than other newer variants and
it comes with C
compiler and
an assembler in the distribution
Sorry to be a pedant here, but Minix was written wholly from scratch and
has no AT&T code in it at all. I know, I've been playing with it since
version 1.1. See also Tanenbaum's Operating Systems: Design and
Implementation
textbook for the fully story.
Ciao!
Warren
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