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From: leach@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gregory E Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Compiling MINIX 1.3 with Turbo C 2.0
Summary: Minix simulator on the VAX running Ultrix
Keywords: minix, vax, simulator
Message-ID: <80224@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 8 May 90 19:37:53 GMT
References: <1179@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: Gregory E Leach <leach@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Distribution: comp.os.minix
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
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I am trying to use Minix for a class I'm teaching, but I am having trouble
getting the VAX distribution to work.  I also have the PC version, and
it works as expected.

Specifically, for the VAX distribution,  I would like to use the capabilities
suggested by Tanenbaum in the preface of his book, on page xiv.  ie

	An alternative way to use the software is to give each student
	a copy of the MINIX sources on a VAX ....
	The software can also be used for courses even when no PC's are
	available....

If anyone has used MINIX in a standalone VAX environment, I would greatly
appreciate any tips you can give me.  Also, I assume I will have to buy a
C compiler for the simulator from UniPress, if I expect to get the same
functionality from the VAX version as from the PC.

	Thanks  
	Greg Leach