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From: michel%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Michel Pollet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX on SUNs
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Date: 3 Dec 90 13:34:25 GMT
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In message of 30 Nov 90 17:24:48 GMT, David Barto  said :
> 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.
>


Hi,

I think i'm too late, but if you are still on the number 1, I hope
I would be the number 2 ;-)

I've got a Sun 3/80 and I've a minix st...

I've got a NFS server for minix fs and I'm very intersting in you stuff.


Many thanks in advance for your your help..

Michel

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