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From: meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Future of Minix    (ST)
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Date: 18 Jul 89 14:30:21 GMT
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Reply-To: meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
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Ok. I'll make them available asap. However, I am currently struggling 
to get a new hard disk up and running (has anyone experience with
connecting a Micropolis 1355 to an ST??? If so, please drop me a mail)
Therefore it can take some time to get this rolling again.

I've not decided whether I will post the 1.3 or 1.4a version.
Problem is that I don't have a 1.3 version handy any more.

Should I also post the stuff from 1.3 which is unaltered for the ST?
This is quite a lot, and I doubt if the n-th repost of animals
is really useful.

If you want to be a volunteer to try to upgrade and if you pass the
following qualifications
- have clean ST 1.1 sources to work upon
- have enough time available to try things out within a reasonable 
  amount of time
then drop me a mail. Please include a description of your system,
hard disk, real time clock, modem speed.
If I get many reactions I'll choose a few people, trying to cover as
much different configurations as possible.

By the way: the version which I have currently running does include a
rs232 driver (based upon the 1.4a driver), ptrace, mdb and Simon
Poole's kbd fixes. Also support for a number of real time clocks
(although I cannot test all of them)
There is no support for >4 partitions, like icd has.
This is mainly since the format is incompatible with the one from HDX 3.0.
I've also not looked into great detail at Bruce's stuff, and I've also 
not incorporated Simon Poole's FS changes (I'll try to stick to what is
in 1.4a), and the screen and mouse drivers.

PS: can anyone confirm or deny if the source posting of cv works?

Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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