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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix and 386's
Keywords: MINIX HD 386
Message-ID: <19078@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 21:46:34 GMT
References: <4864@hydra.gatech.EDU> <5114@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <5114@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <4864@hydra.gatech.EDU> gg10@prism.gatech.EDU (Galloway, Greg) writes:
>>Are there any folks out there using a 386 and Minix?
>
>We have a Laser 386 here, and MINIX works fine on it.  In general, as long
>as the machine has an MFM hard disk and a mono/CGA/Hercules/EGA video card
>your should be ok.  RLL controllers and VGA video is not really established
>yet.

I guess I'm on the cutting edge.  :-)  I've got Minix running on a 386 
with a DTC RLL controller and a VGA.  I'm currently running Bruce's 286
protected mode version of 1.3, but will be up to 1.5 shortly.  The only
change related to the RLL disk was to tell fsck that the number of
sectors per track is 26.  Several programs needed to change because I
have a big disk and my Minix partition is >32M.  The VGA works fine 
as a 24x80 monochrome text display.  1024x768 with windows in color
comes later!  

Paul Allen
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