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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Software development from Hell!
Keywords: Minix UNIX
Message-ID: <13031@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 01:49:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.011616.21708@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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Has anyone attempted to port MINIX to the Apple IIgs?

If it can run on a 640K PC it ought to be able to run on an Apple //gs.
(The PC I refer to, BTW, is an 8088).

I realize that it would be difficult to get a C compiler running under
minix generating '816 code,  but how much work would it be to get the
kernel up and running?  

This thought occurred to me as I was thinking about how ridiculous it
would be to put UNIX on an Apple //gs.  Then, says I, why not?  They've
had minix and QNX, and other low-end pseudo-UNIX-Clones running on 8088s
for years.  Why can't we have a pseudo-UNIX-Clone (above and beyond
APW/ORCA) running on the GS?  Although it would run slow, the GS has all
the necessary hardware to support Minix (no, you don't need an MMU! Even if
you had one MINIX wouldn't use it).