Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amoeba?
References: <3879A5F6.E59AEDC1@access.unizh.ch>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
From: aje9383@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (Andrew Erickson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: grace.isc.rit.edu
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: grace.isc.rit.edu
Message-ID: <3879e952@news.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 2000 09:14:42 -0500
X-Trace: 10 Jan 2000 09:14:42 -0500, grace.isc.rit.edu
Lines: 19
XPident: rrp0650
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.21.4.100
XPident: Unknown
Path: news.adfa.oz.au!clarion.carno.net.au!news0.optus.net.au!news1.optus.net.au!optus!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nyu.edu!news-nysernet-16.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.isc.rit.edu!aje9383

In article <3879A5F6.E59AEDC1@access.unizh.ch>,
Urs-Jakob Rueetschi  <ujrueetschi@access.unizh.ch> wrote:
>Browsing through the source code of MacMinix, I've found some Amoeba stuff
>(Amoeba task, header, etc.), which I don't know what it's good for in Minix. I
>do know, that Amoeba is a (distributed) Operating System, but what's its role
>in Minix?

Short answer:  none; it's vestigual code, and is not even useful if you
happen to have an Amoeba system.  (It is from an unreleased development
version of Amoeba.)

Minix was (is?) used as a host system for some Amoeba work, and some of
the headers and such somehow got mixed into the MacMinix distribution.

>Thanks,
>Urs

-- 
Andrew Erickson
