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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Installing minix on Risk system 6000.
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.132355.13884@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: RS6000 Minix Installation.
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <1991Mar8.010254.17231@csn.org> <9250@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Mar 91 18:23:55 GMT
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In article <9250@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
[ in answer to a query about Minix on the IBM RISC 6000 machine ]
>Before it can be installed, it has to be ported.

Well, normally, yes.  But the R6000 comes with one heck of a 80x86
simulator that I'm pretty sure is not MSDOS specific, in other words
any floppy that boots in an IBMPC will boot using the PC simulator.
This simulator actually interprets the machine language of the 80x86
(I think x can be 0 or 2, but not 3) at the speed of a 12 or 16 MHz
286, depending on whether your R6000 is 20 or 25 MHz.  Not too shabby.
Anyway, I don't think IBM will sell you an R6000 without the OS, so
unless you're into spending person-years just for fun, the PC
simulator would be your only option.  (If you run the PC simulator under
X-windows, it'll even emulate 16 color VGA!)

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