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From: rveldema@cs.vu.nl (Veldema RS)
Subject: Re: All I have to say is...WOW!
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:51:06 GMT
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Will Rose (cwr@cts.com) wrote:
: Arthur D. Jerijian (celestra@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: : Great job, guys!

: : I downloaded and set up Minix 1.7.4 i386 just to play with it on
: : my Pentium and laugh at its primitiveness.  Much to my surprise,
: : I had nothing to laugh at.  This version is much, much more mature
: : than Minix 1.5 will ever be.  I just became amazed at how the
: : revamped setup, the administration tools, the virtual consoles,
: : the disk labeling scheme, and even the user interface.
: : makes Minix feel more like a more advanced BSD system!  Operating
: : system students worldwide will be grateful for using this system
: : in their classes.  (As for myself, I was forced to use Minix 1.5
: : last Winter, in 1996.  I didn't like the experience one bit).

: 1.7 is better in many ways than 1.5, but significantly more complex.
: For students, this may not be an advantage - I still don't entirely
: understand how the 1.7 compiler driver works.  1.5 on an XT was
: probably the best text-mode environment I've ever worked in, but
: it was definitely limited by the address space, and is now also
: limited by the non-ANSI compiler and the lack of networking.

: : I do have one question, though:  Can GCC be built on Minix?  I
: : understand that the core of the OS might still be 16-bit even
: : on a 386 (but you can correct me if I'm wrong), so it might be
: : a little bit difficult to get GCC bootstrapped on a Minix
: : system.

: There's about 10 or 20 lines of 16 bit assembler in Minix-386, to
: bootstrap the system.  I think you could probably install gcc
: without much difficulty, but (see above) I'm not certain...

: will
: cwr@crash.cts.com


I successfully built cc1 and cc1plus and was able to compile something
with classes etc... 
