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From: dwl10@ccc.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix
Message-ID: <0a8Y02xR04Tr01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 18 Dec 90 19:07:51 GMT
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Reply-To: dwl10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston Texas
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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.

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