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From: tsarna@POLAR.BOWDOIN.EDU (Tyler Sarna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Minix
Message-ID: <9011261721.AA29323@polar.bowdoin.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 17:21:48 GMT
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Does anyone know anything about Minix for the Amiga? I heard
rumors that it doesn't support hard drives.

Other questions:

1) How well is amiga-side stuff supported? I don't expect it to run
amiga programs, but ability to read amiga files from minix or
versa vice* would be nice. Could mtools be used under minix to
read/write messydos disks to then be accesed by MSH or
Dos-2-Dos? (eg: does mtools work under amiga minix?)

2) I don't expect X-Windows or anything, but how is the user
interface? I presume it is monocolor text.  Can the screen
colors be changed? can it be put in interlace?

3) An add in UnixWorld (august '90?) mentions various features
being PC-version specific, including "serial support" and "up to
3 users". Are the amiga serial/parallel ports supported? Are
multiple users possible (logging in over serial port?)

4) Another PC-specific featrure was "up to 16M of memory". I
presume that this is considered a special feature on the PC
because of the brain-dead intel architecture, but that other
versions (Atari ST, for example) do support expansion memory.
My question is, will Amiga Autoconfig memory be recognized?
Howabout 32-bit memory on, say, a 2620?

5) General minix-info: Has anyone been able to port GCC to any
68k version of minix? How is unix compatibility in general?

6) Any special features/problems/whatever with minix that I
should know about, both Amiga minix and minix in general? 

Please respond via mail, I will summarize.

*versa vice: the vice versa of vice versa (of course :-))

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