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From: F35KER%DHHDESY3.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kerst van Raden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: re: Re: Official ST upgrade? (no chance...)
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Date: 14 Sep 89 16:16:14 GMT
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> From:         Andy Tanenbaum <ast@CS.VU.NL>
> Subject:      Re: Official ST upgrade? (no chance...)
>
> In article <23780@louie.udel.EDU> SQ79%liverpool.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mar
>  Powell) writes:
> >
> >   We ST Minix users have been left out in the cold, as far as upgrades. The
> >PC has 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 & 1.4a, with talk of 1.4b and 2.0, but where is the
> >ST update.
>
> ...                               I would be more than happy (not to say
> delighted) if some Atari owners would port the upcoming 1.4b version to
> the Atari and give me feedback about any changes needed.  I could then
> incorporate these in my "master" version.                             nce
> ...
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

I think it would be a good idea to use more general #ifdef's in the
code, i.e. not
#ifdef ATARI, #ifdef IBM_COMPATIBLE, #ifdef AMIGA
but
#ifdef M68K, #ifdef I8086, #ifdef NEC_765, #ifdef 16BIT etc.
There is hardly any use for an #ifdef ATARI in most commands. Why not
say #ifdef LONG_POINTER when you add code that is using 32bit adresses?
It would make the code more transparent (education) and easier to
port (hacking).
      Kerst van Raden