Xref: utzoo comp.os.minix:6644 comp.sys.amiga:37699 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaMINIX, some answers Message-ID: <478@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 2 Aug 89 00:38:36 GMT References: <2939@solo3.cs.vu.nl> <2059@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <469@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA Lines: 22 In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: >Joe> They said: "AmigaMINIX boots from a normal AmigaDOS floppy". >Joe> That sounds like it uses S:startup-sequence. Then they said "so >Joe> it can determine what keymap you use". That seems to be a very ^^^^^ >Joe> unambiguous reference to AmigaMINIX being started near the end of >Joe> the startup-sequence, after your SetMap command. > >This does not necessarily follow. I based my statement on the fact that they claim to honor the keymap. To me, that means only one thing: that the AmigaDOS SetMap program gets run. I don't see how any of the other claims could be true without running the startup-sequence. Go back to the original posting for details. Unless the people doing the port of AmigaMINIX want to jump in, this thread has ended. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"