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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minimal PC Minix hardware
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.170806.55@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 27 Jan 91 17:08:06 GMT
References: <6985@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <6985@crash.cts.com> by cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose):
+---------------
| >present, so anything I do will have to fit on the 10 meg or on 360 K
| >floppies.
|  
| I've run Minix on a 10MHz XT clone with 640K of memory and a 40mS hard
| disk for a couple of years now; it's quite effective (at least, version
| 1.5 is).  You will need 20MB of disk space, tho', to do anything useful
| (15MB is the bare minimum) and you will need a 1.2MB or (better) 1.44MB
| drive for backup.  While you can *run* Minix on a PC with just one floppy
+---------------

The 360K drive is dead?  My XT clone is out of slots, so I can't just drop a
1.2MB controller in.  (Not to mention that there seems to be no way to disable
the motherboard floppy controller.)

++Brandon
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