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From: barto@megatek.UUCP (David Barto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX on SUNs
Message-ID: <839@tsunami.megatek.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 90 17:24:48 GMT
References: <1025@pcsbst.pcs.com>
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
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In article <1025@pcsbst.pcs.com> hgw@rht32.pcs.com (h.-g. willers) writes:
>Alan Nichols asks,
>>We are trying to get minix running on a sun 3/50 using the pc simulator
>>provided in the MINIX distribution.
>
>The reason for this is, that the simulator was written for a VAX
>(a little endian machine) to simulate the 8086 (also little endian).

I actually spend a great deal of time with the simulator.  I finally
got it running on the sun3 and sun4 under SunOS 4.0.3 (4.1) and was
running programs like 'getty', 'login', 'sh', 'ls' and such.

I sent the changes back to Mr. T. after I got all of them integrated.

There are still bugs in my simulator.  I have not used it in over a
year.  (I have, in fact, packed it up into the archives.)

Since I can no longer make any claims about it working any more, if you
want the simulator I worked on, let me know.  I will mail out EXACTLY 2
COPIES of it.  If you are requestor number 3 or above you will receive
the address for those who where first.  I will also post the address of
the first 2 recipients, and mail each of them the others address.

My only request is that if anyone makes it truely useful that they mail
it back to me.


	-barto
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