Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!jjmhome!acestes!paradis From: paradis@acestes.UUCP (Jim Paradis) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: minix for Tandy 2000 Keywords: minix,Tandy,non-standard-clone Message-ID: <170@acestes.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 91 22:18:25 GMT References: <10943@rama.UUCP> Reply-To: paradis@acestes.UUCP (Jim Paradis) Distribution: na Organization: Alberichs Rings & Things Lines: 31 In article <10943@rama.UUCP> lvw@rama.UUCP (Lyndon VanWagner) writes: >Now my laughable question. Is there another poor, foolish, but honest >citizen out there who has ported minix to their Tandy 2000? What tools >are necessary to rewrite the terminal and disk drivers and such? Well, I never ported MINIX to the 2000, but I did used to own one. Basically, after fighting with Radio Shack and with the machine for several years and having it be a crap shoot as to whether Brand X software would run on it, I finally gave it up and bought a PClone. In the process of trying to get stuff to run on it, though, I have learned a thing or two 8-). Although it's completely hardware-incompatible with the PeeCee, it's largely BIOS-compatible. MINIX already comes with a BIOS disk driver, so all you really need is to write a BIOS console driver. My suggestion would be to find a friend who has a PC-type machine, de-brain the existing console and keyboard drivers, and plug in BIOS calls in their place. Oh yeah; also make sure you remove the existing re-mapping of the keyboard interrupt vector... The other possibility would be to find a C compiler that works on the 2000 and use the recent NYUMINIX postings to run MINIX under MS-DOS 8-) 8-) 8-) I used to have a copy of the Tandy 2000 Technical reference manual, but I can't seem to find it... I don't remember whether I gave it to some other net.person or tossed it... -- Jim Paradis UUCP: harvard!m2c!jjmhome!acestes!paradis 9 Carlstad St. AT&T: (508) 792-3810 Worcester, MA 01607-1569 ICBM: 42deg 13' 52", 71deg 47' 51"