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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Questions from a beginner
Keywords: Beginner, ST-PC minix
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.072836.2362@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 90 07:28:36 GMT
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In article <1990Jul26.024918.7340@agate.berkeley.edu> nlane@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
>Also, is anyone out there running Minix on a 520 ST with more than 1 MB 
>memory?  (i.e. I want to avoid the 64K segment stuff on intel machines - but
>need to know if Minix will recognize, say, 4 MB on a hacked 520 ST.)

Any ST will use any amount of memory up to 4meg with no special tricks
required. A 4 meg 520ST would be nearly indistinguishable from a Mega-4.
They would be identical as far as ST Minix is concerned. (Get the 4 megs.
Minix runs Really Well with 640K of FS buffer cache. }-)

>One more thing - can I get an Internet connection up and running using a
>Minix machine, or do I have to get a full BSD or SYS V implementation to get
>that kind of access?  (The physical layer of the interface is no  problem,
>but the software - telnet, ftp, etc. are beyond me.)

The PC version comes with amoeba networking support. TCP/IP services will
require a good deal of hacking on your part.
--
  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip
	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
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