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From: cweng@taco.engr.ucdavis.edu (~{#@HNNRRy#@~})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 4 Apr 1997 18:47:46 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis
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Theo de Raadt (deraadt@theos.com) wrote:
: In article <5i1c4i$fo@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: Well, Minix does message passing.
: (Back when I ported Minix to the sun3/50... I thought it was really
: horrible. It was wimpy message passing).
I think Linux is a very very well designed operating system. The only
messge passing facility it uses is asyncronous as I can remeber. Damn it
has been a while since I was an undergrad.:) We actually used a
simulator to run minix on top of SunOs. Anything new to Minix after all
these years?
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