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From: pcm@iwarpr0.intel.com (Phil Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix in ROM
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Date: 27 Nov 89 02:23:40 GMT
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In article <2339@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:

>  What with recent proliferation of "notebook" and smaller-than-laptop
>  computers has anybody given a though to implementing Minix, or most
>  of it, in a drive-less environment?  I'm thinking mainly of products
>  like NEC UltraLight, the Atari Portfolio and the Poquet, each with
>  MS-DOS embedded in ROM.  In addition both NEC and Poquet claim ability
>  to run suitably configured software directly from ROM-cards, without
>  having to read the code into the RAM.

>  So, a Poquet running Minix and a mail-shell and we're set for life...
>  or at least until the telepax technology matures.



>------ ianf@nada.kth.se/ @sekth.bitnet/ uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf




Kind of hard to imagine MINIX being frozen in silicon at this point...


Phil Miller
pcm@iwarp.intel.com

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