Xref: utzoo comp.os.minix:6633 comp.sys.amiga:37646 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaMINIX, some answers Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 89 04:44:39 GMT References: <2939@solo3.cs.vu.nl> <2059@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <469@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 25 In-reply-to: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM's message of 1 Aug 89 01:00:11 GMT On 1 Aug 89 01:00:11 GMT, jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) said: 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. It could simply mean that it pretends to be a dos disk ("DOS\0" tag) so it can boot. It's likely to let AmigaDOS boot and do initialization stuff, but don't count on it. (until you know.) Joe> Which means AddMem can go in there, no problem. If there's actually a startup-sequence, yes. Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.