Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!jarthur!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!samsung!aplcen!haven!udel!mmdf From: postmaster@att-in.att.com Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8389@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 16 Jan 90 18:10:27 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 58 Mail to `att.att.com!attmail!mhs!envoy!ics.test/pn=_test_group' alias `att!attmail!mhs!envoy!ics.test/pn=_test_group' from 'VM1.NoDak.EDU!INFO-MINIX%UDEL.EDU' failed. The error message was: destination unknown or forwarding disallowed The message began: Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 6220; Tue, 16 Jan 90 02:45:00 CST Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 6207; Tue, 16 Jan 90 02:44:59 CST Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 16:38:17 GMT Reply-To: INFO-MINIX%UDEL.EDU@VM1.NoDak.EDU Sender: Minix operating system Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was info-minix-request@UDEL.EDU From: Thomas Driemeyer Subject: is Minix portable? Comments: To: info-minix@udel.edu To: Multiple recipients of list MINIX-L Hi, I have a home-built 68020/68000 box at home and have decided that Minix is the best thing that can happen to it. Problem is, the architecture is wildly incompatible with everything else, so I can't just walk into the next store and buy Minix. So the idea is to use a Unix system and a Sozobon compiler to port everything, and then run it at home. Is that practical? I have written multiuser OS's before, but I don't want to spend years on this. In <360@fwi.uva.nl>, croes@fwi.uva.nl (Felix A. Croes) writes > My ld will be part of Frans Meulebroeks' semi-official Minix ST 1.5.0 update. Glad to hear that there will be a 1.5.0 for the Atari. If it is available, - I buy Minix ST 1.1, - apply Frans's patches (I hope they are posted, I can't ftp), - port and compile everything on Unix using zcc, - run it at home. Right? It would save _a lot_ of trouble if there is a streamer or 1/2" tape version of the Minix ST 1.1, the info sheet is a bit ambiguous here. If so, what format does it use, and what is the ISBN? Has anyone done this (the Mac folks, for example)? Are there reasons why this is utterly impossible without using an Atari? Or do I just have to rewrite the booter, the exception code and the drivers, and off I go? Complications I could do without are, for example, assumptions that an integer is always 16 bits, address 0 must be writable, addresses must be < 2**24, F-line opcodes are reserved, caches can't be used etc. I like Sozobon because the source is available. My box was designed with a 68030 in mind. Can Minix be extended to use virtual, copy-on-write memory schemes? Please email. Thanks a lot! Thomas Driemeyer pyramid!trane!thomas Disclaimer: My company has nothing to do with this.