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From: KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk (Kevin Purcell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX and 68030
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Date: 25 Sep 90 08:54:02 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Sep 90 14:34:52 GMT Andy Tanenbaum (ast@NL.VU.CS) said:

>In article <90266.095514ST00482@auvm.auvm.edu> ST00482@auvm.auvm.edu (dan
drake)
> writes:
>>I've just been informed that MINIX will not run on an Amiga 3000
>I believe this is correct.  A 68030 has an MMU that must be set up properly.
>None of the 68000 versions of MINIX even know such a gadget exists, let alone
>setting it up correctly.
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

This is presumably not true of the mac version, as it runs on top of the
Mac Toolbox/OS, which hides the true machine. I expect (remebered from an
earlier post?) that Minix will run on all Macs from Plus to IIfx. Is this
true?

-kgp

Kevin G. Purcell       | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
Surface Science,       |
Liverpool University   | Programming the Macintosh is easy if you understand
Liverpool L69 3BX      | how the Mac works and hard if you don't. -- Dan Allen