Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!bunny!rw02
From: rw02@GTE.COM (Robert Weihmayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX
Message-ID: <9224@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 90 14:27:05 GMT
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Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA
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With all this discussion on the nature of MacMINIX, the pros and cons
of having it be a MacAPP, etc. has anyone tried to run MINIX with
SoftPC on a MAC? 

Especially with the new SoftPC AT module, it is a very competent,
albeit slow (6MHz AT level on a IIci), emulation of a full 286/287 EGA
machine. The advantage I would see to this is that one could have the
benefit from using a MAC and still be able to experiment with a full
operating system down to interrupts and machine level I/O.  Clearly
performance should not be an issue with this configuration, one would
clearly get very little of it. But MINIX is after all an OS teaching
environment.


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