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- From: bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Things I Wish Were In MINIX
- Message-ID: <1jo45aINN46t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:27:54 GMT
- References: I need a REFERENCE to post!!?? Bah!
- Reply-To: bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Yes, I know, this is unsolicited, but these things have been gnawing at
- me.
-
- * a "nice" command [or some way of increasing or decreasing command
- priorities] .. this would be handy for cron and background tasks in
- general.. so a backup called from cron doesn't slow the whole system to
- a crawl [hypothetical.. I don't have another drive in which to back
- MINIX upon!]
-
- * faster i/o. anything that goes to stderr seems to run much slower
- than the rest of the text.. I have heard vague and unconfirmed rumors
- about an "enhanced" stdio program which speeds reads & writes up a bit,
- but, given my luck, it won't work on MacMINIX. Also, why do exec and
- system calls take so long to execute the program? Even with both
- absolute filenames and caching, it still takes a long time.. why?
-
- * I've been crying for some time about this one: how come there's no
- support for AppleTalk? [MacMINIX] There is an include file, but no
- code to go with it. Is this coming soon? I dearly hope so. My Mac has
- been lonely too long..
-
- These shouldn't be interpreted as flames [grr.. I hate MINIX.. shoulda
- never got the thing.. grr..] ... I *like* MINIX. It is a great learning
- platform, plus it is far more inexpensive than MachTEN or A/UX, and
- requires fewer resources.
-
- I know what you're going to say.. "You've got the source, fix it
- yourself!" I knew about { } much of C before I got MINIX, and I'm still
- learning... someday, perhaps you will see my contributions on your
- favourite FTP site.. but not anytime soon.
-
- Well, I'm done ranting. Replies are feverently desired.
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