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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: UCLA no longer on the internet?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 23:37:03 GMT
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This is being posted on the request of Mr Chung.  Any answers should go to him.
Andy Tanenbaum

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Hi Andy!  Everybody here at UCLA in CS111 (Operating System) really
appreciates your Minix and we are definately having a lot of fun
having to be able to act as the ever-powerful root and change the
whole OS around.  Thanks.  In fact, I am so into Minix now I want to
take it home and put it on my portable.  And that brings me to my
questions:
    1) I have a Toshiba 3100SX, 2M RAM, 80 Meg Harddisk, 2 unused paritions
       of 10Megs each (drive e: and f:).  I'd like to put Minix 1.2 or 1.5
       on e: of f:.  My professor in CS111 had once said that Minix disk
       drivers are hardware specific, so will there be a problem there?
       And also, my laptop is 386SX, and I know it is backward compatible
       with 286, but will it also be compatible with minix (which is 
       designed to run on AT's, as far as I know).
   
    2) I tried to post this in comp.os.minix but nobody around seems to
       know how to post a message.  Feel free to post my question in 
       rn.  

Ivan Chung (ichung@seas.ucla.edu)