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Kees J Bot wrote:

> Minix-vmd went its own way somewhere around 1.6.16.  This doesn't mean
> that it didn't look back.  Everything added to Minix also made its way
> to Minix-vmd, if not in code, then at least in function.
>
> >Bottom line question: what's missing from minix_vmd that's in Minix 2.0.2 ?
>
> The current online version is getting old, so its missing bug fixes that
> Minix has.  The only major missing feature that I can think of right now
> is that Minix-vmd can't run under DOS like Minix can.
>

Thanks! It's just what I was trying to understand.

> Minix-vmd is missing one other feature, one that isn't tangible.  Minix
> "fits in one students head" as Andy once said.  Minix-vmd is too big for
> that.

Say, doesn't Andy's remark forget to take into account that not all student heads are
equivalent?  ;-)

-Mike

p.s. Any plans to back-port those bugfixes you mention into the public minix-vmd?

>
> --
> Kees J. Bot, Systems Programmer, Sciences dept., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Minix:       http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/   ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/
> Minix-vmd:   http://www.Minix-vmd.org/        ftp://ftp.Minix-vmd.org/

