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From: patterso@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Mitchell Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix On Tandy 100TL?
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Date: 1 Sep 90 23:11:14 GMT
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As the subject line suggests, I'd like to know if Minix will work on a
Tandy 1000TL ( 80286 with an XT bus, I think ).  I borrowed a set of
Minix disks, 1.3 I believe, and tried to boot; the boot disk worked OK,
but the fsck seemed to just spin disks forever...no error messages,
nothing, just that little red drive-in-use light.

I have AST's book, and I noticed that it says Minix requires 100% IBM-
compatible I/O chips.  I suspect that -- knowing Tandy's penchant for
designing bizarre proprietary ``features'' into their machines -- 
this may be the problem.  Perhaps I just had a bad set of disks.

If anyone can shed any light on this problem, please do so; I would very much
like to get involved in the grassroots Minix development process.  Thanks in
advance.