| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
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Last week I had posted a note to comp.os.minix, asking on the
availability of minix, below is the response I received.
Bill Powers
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>Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
>Path: decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!botter!star!ast
>Subject: Re: minix on atari st
>Posted: 18 Apr 88 10:08:23 GMT
>Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
>
>In article <8804141742.AA01455@decwrl.dec.com> powers@devcim.dec.com (Bill Powers HLO1-1/T05 DTN 225-7094) writes:
>>
>> Has anyone ported minix to the atari st?? If yes, where can I
>> get a hold of it, and at what cost??
>
>
>MINIX for the ATARI ST is now finished and has been sent to Prentice-Hall
>for reproduction and publication. I will post a thorough description of
>the system, etc. as soon as P-H can give me more definite information about
>date of availability, pricing etc. It will probably be available sometime
>during the summer, and for a price under $100 (including all the sources).
>I will post more when I know more. Please don't send mail asking, because
>I don't know. I won't forget to post an announcement when I know. Honest.
>
>If anyone is seriously interested in porting MINIX to the Amiga or Macintosh
>I or II, let me know. It will be several months of hard work for an expert who
>knows the target machine up and down, backward and forward, inside and out. The
>main issue is writing I/O drivers for the clock, tty, disk, etc., or hooking
>up to the ROM routines, where appropriate. Beginners need not apply.
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
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| 49.1 | MINIX | STEREO::GOULD | This space for rent. | Thu Apr 21 1988 15:57 | 6 |
I'm pleased to hear that minix will be available for the st. I'm
looking forward to playing with it (it's even better than zork).
Is anyone interested in starting a minix confererence on enet?
/dana gould/
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| 49.2 | Ehhhh ? | PILOU::ANDERSEN | This space is allready hired out | Thu Apr 21 1988 16:11 | 3 |
| 49.3 | MINIX | STEREO::GOULD | This space for rent. | Thu Apr 21 1988 16:23 | 14 |
Sorry about that.
Minix is a Unix-like operating system written by Andrew Tannenbaum
and described in his book, "Operating Systems: Design and
Implementation" from Prentice-Hall. The book contains the source
code in C for the Minix kernel (muti-tasking scheduler, device drivers,
file server, stuff like that). For about $80, you can buy Minix
on disk for ibm-pc (shudder) clones. That includes the kernel from
the book, *plus* the shell, editor, compiler, *lots* of utilities,
and complete source code for *everything* except the compiler.
If you want a cheap Unix-like operating system for your st, this
is it.
/dana gould/
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