Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!oscar.austin.ibm.com!oscar From: oscar@oscar.austin.ibm.com (Oscar R. Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Installing minix on Risk system 6000. Keywords: RS6000 Minix Installation. Message-ID: <5831@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 9 Mar 91 00:50:15 GMT References: <9250@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Mar8.010254.17231@csn.org> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: oscar@futserv.austin.ibm.com Organization: IBM Coporation - Advanced Workstations Division. Lines: 33 > From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) > Subject: Re: Installing minix on Risk system 6000. > Keywords: RS6000 Minix Installation. > Date: 8 Mar 91 15:21:22 GMT > Sender: news@cs.vu.nl > Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam > Lines: 9 > > > has anybody installed minix 1.5 on a RS6000 320 power station ? > > Before it can be installed, it has to be ported. Knowing what I do about > both IBM's way of doing things and RISC machines in general, I don't think > such a task will be something you do in a weekend. As far as I know, nobody > is even contemplating it. ^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) I would not say '"NOBODY" is contemplating it' ---- ;-) Oscar. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <><><><> IBM Corporation - Advanced Workstations Division IBM Tieline: 793-2908 RISC System/6000(tm) - Future Systems Hardware Architecture and Design Group (formerly in the Floating Point Chip Design Group) Mail Stop: ZIP 2812 USA Phone: (512)823-0000 11400 Burnet Road USA "FAX": (512)823-2948 Austin, Texas 78758 CI$ Net: 76356.1170@compuserve.com IBM VNet: OSCAR at AUSVM6 IBM InterNet: oscar@oscar.austin.ibm.com USA InterNet: oscar@futserv.austin.ibm.com #include /* I DO NOT speak for IBM */ Oscar R. Mitchell