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- From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
- Subject: Re: Things I Wish Were In MINIX
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:31:33 PST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.193133.14862@crash>
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- James Abendschan (bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
- :
- : 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!]
-
- There's a nice patch for the IBM PC; and possibly for the Atari.
- I know nothing about Mac's, but it's Minix, right - you could try
- porting. Where do you find the patches - er... pass. I know the
- IBM stuff is on Warren Toomey's archive, someone just mentioned it.
- KaiUwe Bloem (?sp) wrote the *essential* 1.5.10 scheduler and (I'm almost
- certain) a nice call, on which I based the IBM port. You could try a
- German archive.
-
- Good luck - Will
- cwr@crash.cts.com
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