Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!philmtl!atha!aunro!apss!ncc!isa!darius From: darius@isa.uucp (Darius S. Naqvi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Minix info request Message-ID: <1990Jun9.130205.9282@isa.uucp> Date: 9 Jun 90 13:02:05 GMT References: <2044@dali> Reply-To: darius@isagate.nexus.ca (Darius S. Naqvi) Organization: ISA Corporation Lines: 59 H In article scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) writes: > >I sent in my $80.00 and I received ST Minix 1.1. Version 1.1 is ok, >but I started reading comp.os.minix and I soon found out that it >wasn't the latest version. Not only that, but by the time I read an >article in comp.os.minix, a new version had come out. This has >repeated until now, I think... the current version is something like >1.5.10. Of course, there is no standard method of upgrading and from >what I can gather, there is no one place where you can pick up any >upgrades for say, from version 1.1 to 1.5.10. > >So, you can order your Minix now and you will probably get an old >version. I thought I heard talk of a new release 2.0 (or was it 2.1?) >for later this year. I sure hope Prentice Hall will accept the old >disks back as part of some sort of upgrade because I have not spent >the time to mess with 1.1 since the newer versions appear to be >sufficiently enhanced to the point where the old version would not be >worth the effort to maintain it. > What you are seeing in comp.os.minix is *free* upgrades to Minix which so far are available *only* to people who use USENET and are willing to patch and recompile the sources till their faces turn blue :-). The latest version on the net (1.5.10) is going to become the next version (1.5) released by Prentice-Hall this summer. If you wait until then, you can buy it (for about $140, if I recall the message that Andy Tanenbaum posted in comp.os.minix). It will also include a LOT more documentation than the ST1.1 version. As well, there are numerous sites that archive Minix stuff and make their archives available either by anonymous ftp or mail-servers. You're not stuck with the "old" version of Minix-ST unless you want to be. Also, another nice thing available from the net for the ST version of Minix (but not the PC version due to brain-dead segmented memory) is a C compiler with source. (The ACK compiler which comes with Minix-ST is the only part of Minix that doesn't include source). This C compiler (the one with source, that was posted to the net) apparently makes executables that are almost twice as fast as those produced by ACK. If you use this compiler and Minix-ST v1.5.10, you should have a nice, solid, fast system. >:( > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] > After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' > Administrator of: Game design requests to > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Darius S. Naqvi uucp: darius%isagate@uunet.uu.net ISA Corp. darius@isagate.isac.UUCP Edmonton, Alberta, Canada {uunet,alberta}!ncc!isagate!darius (403) 420-8081 or (403) 441-4121 Home: (403) 439-1444