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From: edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga...
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.034119.23845@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 20 Sep 90 03:41:19 GMT
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xwm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Alexei Rodriguez) writes:

>Well, for those of you that do not read comp.newprod, here is the posting
>about the 1.5 release of MINIX. Although I deleted some stuff about the IBM
>and Mac versions, this is the main of the post. Although nothing was mentioned
>about student discounts, I wonder if my 25% (or is that 40%?) discount at local
>computer stores is valid? Hmm. There are a few questions that I have about 
>MINIX as a whole so here goes:
This was posted here (yes, in this newgroup) about a week and a half ago.
(If you use minix as part of your course, you lecturer can buy it and give
it out to students - for teaching purposes, for free)

>	Will it multi-task under amiga? (Boot Amiga and then go Minix or is
>	it a hog?)
No, it takes over the computer.  What's the point of running two operating
sytems at the same time.  It is a REPLACEMENT for amigados. (and about time
too).

>	Does MINIX multitask?
yes, of course.

>	I saw a post about GUI for MINIX but the problem was lack of 
>	graphics.lib. Anybody have any suggestions.
sorry, no idea.

>	Also, how hard would it be to write a hard drive driver for 
>	MINIX? 
As far as I can tell, not too hard.  They have built in the support (I think)
and just lack the drivers.

rik.
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