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From: paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix on the Amiga
Summary: It exists
Message-ID: <27771@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 90 03:45:54 GMT
References: <4991@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: paul@Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <4991@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> dart@cat24.cs.wisc.edu (UPL stuff) writes:
>
>	Hi all,
>		Just wondering if anyone has/is going to do/ a MINIX port
>for the Amiga. You know, the operating system Tannenbaum(sp?) wrote. It would
>be kind of neat to have something that takes over Exec's place, but still
>uses the Amiga hardware (timers) for preemptive task switching.
>	Actually, the AmigaDOG is already pretty close to minix in many re-
>spects (no memory protection, no swapping, etc.), so I can't imagine it
>would be *too* difficult to port. Any info would be appreciated.

An Amiga port does exist.  Two of Tannenbaum's students ported it on their
own and it apparently looks quite good to the beta testers.  Programs that
run under it are binary compatible with ST Minix, and the file system is
identical with ST Minix to the point that media can also be exchanged.
The bad news is that it is floppy-only.  Nobody had a Winchester disk on
their system to try writing a driver for.

There has been some discussion on this recently in the comp.os.minix
newsgroup on Usenet, for those who have access to it.
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