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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga...
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.124848@wjg.enet.dec.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 16:53:04 GMT
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In article <7726@star.cs.vu.nl>, sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven) writes:
|> From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
|> Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga...
|> 
|> guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau) writes:
|> 
|> >I've been talking with Andy Tanenbaum about Minix.

[stuff deleted on possible explinations why it might not work on 030 machines.

Surely *someone* has tried booting Minix on a 3000 or 2500/30? 

Does it boot? Does it only crash on exceptions (which means it may be
possible to provide a development environment to fix/recompile it!)

|> Amiga Minix is started from s:startup-sequence, so you can fiddle with the
|> MMU and cache parameters as much as you like before running minix, by
calling
|> the utility program that came with your accelerator board from the startup-
|> sequence before minix is started. I think that the same parameters could
|> be used that are used for the normal AmigaOS.

That's interesting Does Minix use any info from AmigaDOS boot? Like the 
autoconfig device list? The memory lists? Will ADDMEMed memory from the
startup-sequence be seen by Minix?

(patiently awaiting a possible non-working copy of Minix...)


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W. John Guineau   			guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation
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