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From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Three questions (Compatibility, 3.5" disks, Availability)
Message-ID: <651493032.12775@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Aug 90 10:17:12 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@SoftEng.UUCP (ken)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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In article <2690.26d3c865@csc.anu.oz> walrmath@fac3.anu.oz.au writes:
>Has anyone tried Minix on an Amstrad PPC640 (the portable, not to be
>confused with a PC1640)?  I'm not concerned
>about the CPU, BIOS, etc. (as they are all PC compatible) but rather
>that Minix appears to rely on a particular disk controller.

I used Minix 1.2 on my PPC512 with double drives. No problems at all. Not
much fun without a hard disk though!

Ken

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