Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!genie From: genie@zephyr.dsir.govt.nz (Mark Stephens) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 01:20:57 GMT References: <992.275F3246@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> <0a8Y02xR04Tr01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Sender: news@am.dsir.govt.nz Organization: Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, NZ. Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: dwl10@ccc.amdahl.com's message of 18 Dec 90 19:07:51 GMT In article <0a8Y02xR04Tr01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> dwl10@ccc.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes: > In article <992.275F3246@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Shawn.Switenky@weyr.FIDONET.ORG (Shawn Switenky) writes: > >I believe that the only reason for the poor responce from the Amiga Community towards Minix is that they simply don't know about it yet. > >Minix has been out for other machine for a long time now, and a version > >for the Amiga is brand spanking new. It will pickup. Amiga people are > >some of the most resourceful people I know. > > > >I myself own an Amiga and I am patiently waiting for somebody to bring > >out Hard disk support for Commodore harddrives (ie 2091 or the native > >A3000 controller.) Is there anyone out there who is working on this? I'd be very interested to hear from you. > > There are two things keeping me from running MINIX on my Amiga: > > 1 - No hard drive support > > 2 - It will not run under AmigaDos, only in native mode > > Until these shortcomings are addressed, MINIX on the Amiga is only a > neat curiosity. I think these are only symptoms of the real "problem": most Amiga users don't really need Minix, because AmigaDOS is generally sufficient and works quite well. Minix has really taken off on PC's, because MSDOS is such a good incentive to run Minix instead :-) AmigaDOS on the other hand, already multitasks and does memory management and libraries and lots of other things, so Minix isn't so attractive. Having said that, and to avoid being flamed :-), I'll also add that I intend to try Minix on my Amiga and soon as I recover from a recent hardware buying spree (!). Can anyone tell me what feature Amiga Minix *does* support? Is it just really vanilla, or are there some specials in there ??? -------- \ Mark Stephens \ "Man and machine share in the stimulating DSIR Physical Sciences \/\ exchange of ... Aaarrggghh!!" Info Tech Group \ - Eddie the computer Wellington, NZ \