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From: kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz)
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Subject: Re: sources?
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Date: 6 Jan 91 22:31:16 GMT
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> The pc532 software "distribution" is spread out all over the place.
> I'd like to acquire sources for everything I've got, and a few things
> I don't have yet, but I'm not sure where everything is.

This is certainly a problem if you don't want to replay the same
scavenger hunt that everybody else has gone on.  I had hoped that
Minix for the pc532 could be done as nicely and professionally as
the hardware but the reaction I seemed to get from everybody other
than Dave and George was "that's the fun of Minix" and "this a'int
a Mac."  :-(  Lacking a great deal of tinkering time, my pc532 has
largely ended up being a space heater.

As expressed before, I'd be willing to help rectify this if there
is any interest out there.

> 	On Prentice-Hall floppy?

This is a poor solution for those of us with no way to read them.
(Perhaps I shouldn't assume that one can use pc532 Minix without a
piece of Intel garbage.)

>     Minix kernel:
> 	Floppy from bruce.
> 	Update dated 9/1/90 posted to pc532-src.
> 	memory allocation patch dated 11/12/90
> 	Is that all?

There's also the clock chip (/dev/rtc) patch.

>     gnu emacs:
> 	Has anyone gotten this to work yet?

I have a nearly functional version of jove 4.13.  If there's any
interest I'll spend some time going to 4.14 and packaging it up.

>     uucp:
> 	posted to pc532-src.

This was only a partial implementation.  I've fixed a few more
bugs since then, though it still doesn't know how to make outgoing
calls.  A few things are hacked pending kernel support.

I've also ported smail 2.5.  Only a couple of minor changes; I'm
not sure if I posted about this or not.

>     ksh:
> 	posted to pc532-src.

>From what I could figure you first need to port ESTDIO to get this
running.  Seems to me I grabbed it but ran out of time to spend on
porting that too.

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