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From: dji@orville.nas.nasa.gov (the dirty vicar)
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Subject: Re: Getting MINIX
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Date: 30 Aug 89 04:15:21 GMT
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In article <590010@hpsad.HP.COM> jon@hpsad.HP.COM (Jon Aldrich) writes:
>Who is the right person or group to contact about obtaining minix source
>code?  I would like to try and port it to my machine.
>
>I have an HP series 9000 workstation.  The processor is a 68k and it has 
>about 1.5M of ram.

	This is almost the very same question I was going to ask in this
group today anyway.... specifically:

	Does anyone have a recommendation of a way for someone who is
generally unskilled in the ways of hardware-hacking and low-level stuff
to get a-hold of the Minix-ST package for the purposes of attempting a port
to an unusual 68000 architecture when that person has no access to an ST ??
(that's one helluva sentence... :-)

I called Prentice-Hall to ask if Minix-ST is available on mag tape, as is the
PC version.  The answer, after some discussion of just what it was I was
asking for, was, and I quote:

	"No.  Absolutely not."

Advice and help will be gratefully accepted.
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