Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xylogics!transfer!lectroid!lectroid.sw.stratus.com!lennox From: lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Trouble with Amiga floppies - a possible solution Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 90 19:52:58 GMT References: <33009@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <7897@star.cs.vu.nl> <3197@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <7936@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Organization: /u/minilove/lennox/.organization Lines: 16 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 13 Oct 90 00:30:55 GMT In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: Sounds to me like the decision to make the Amiga port native rather than hosted is coming home to roost. When can I expect to run Minix as a task in an Intuition window? I, for one, am glad they did it the way they did. IMHO, it would be a hell of a lot easier (and fun) for a dedicated Amiga hacker to change AmigaMINIX to be a hosted task than the other way round. I'd hate to have to dig through all those hardware references.... -- | flame me at: lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com, (Craig Scott Lennox) | |"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!" | | Disclaimer: My opinions are covered by section 2b of the Gnu Public | | License and thus do not belong to Stratus Computer. |