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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX on sequent
Keywords: porting, VAX assembly, 386 assembly
Message-ID: <3761@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Oct 89 15:19:00 GMT
References: <5195@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <5195@ogccse.ogc.edu> srikanth@ogccse.ogc.edu (Srikanth Kambhatla) writes:
>   I am trying to port MINIX onto the Sequent Symmetry. 
>   The problem I face is that there are a few routines 
>   written in VAX assembly which cannot be ported directly.

Will the person who did the VAX port (???!!!) please raise his or her hand.

As a note to the original poster, the base version of MINIX is for the
INTEL chips, and should work on a 386 without problems.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)