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From: dave@nancy.uucp (Dave Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix on a 386SX laptop
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.004009.29924@nancy.uucp>
Date: 15 Jan 91 00:40:09 GMT
Sender: dave@nancy.uucp (Dave Harris)
Organization: American Systems Corporation
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I'm getting a lap top some time soon and would like to run MINIX on it, can 
anyone tell of any foreseeable problems.   I intend to get MINIX 1.5.
I will be using an AST Premium Exec 386SX with an IDE 40 Meg drive from Conner
The system will have 2 megs of memory.  Does the 1.5 version of MINIX support
hard drives?... Which drives?  I have heard rumblings about The Bellcore window
manager MGR being ported to MINIX.. Can anyone elaborate on it.  I understand
that it uses STREAMS with are SYS5.  I do not think anyone would have hacked
MINIX for STREAMS, but what about TCP/IP and sockets?
Also has anyone hacked shared memory?  While we are on the subject of advances
in MINIX does 1.5 support virtual memory.... Oh heck where can I get a list
of the hacks done to the MINIX kernel to bring it a lil past Version 7.


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