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- From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
- Subject: Christmas present: 1.6.24b cdiffs available by FTP
- Message-ID: <BzqGBA.C83@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:11:34 GMT
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- Just in time for all your Christmas stockings, the second beta release of
- MINIX 1.6.24 (henceforth called 1.6.24b) for the Intel CPUs is available This
- is similar to the first beta release, but with a lot of minor improvements all
- over the place, and many bugs fixed. It has been tested with both the new
- ANSI ACK compiler (definitely the preferred one), and the original K&R ACK
- compiler. Except for a few minor problems, the K&R compiler works ok, although
- it tends to issue warning messages a fair amount. The ANSI compiler does this
- less due to the presence of prototypes. The entire MINIX code is now written
- in ANSI C, and is about 80% of the way there to compatibility with POSIX
- 1003.1 1990 (ISO 9945-1). Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 of 9945-1 have been
- implemented. All that is left are a few small items in those chapters, plus
- Chap. 7 (terminal stuff).
-
- Please fetch the contents of the minix/1.6.24b directory from ftp.cs.vu.nl
- (192.31.231.42) and see the READ_ME file. For people without FTP access, is
- there an archive site available to store the cdiffs?
-
- Please report bugs on the net. After the dust settles, I will fix any remaining
- bugs and then make this the official version for a while.
-
- Happy Holidays.
-
- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
-