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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
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Subject: Re: Archimedes Minix?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 10:05:34 GMT
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PATZEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Patzel Martin) writes:

>Hello all,
>I've done a port of Minix 1.5.10 (PC-Version) to the Acorn Archimedes.
>Though my version seems to run quite stable, I don't want to post it to
>the rest of the world. There are missing the rs232 and parallel port driver
>and the driver for the floppy disk drive. The version is only intended to be
>for internal use here.

[...interesting part of article deleted...]

>                If someone (someONE, not all) is *really* interested
>in doing a port or in some details, I could send him some of the more
>important modules.

I think there are people that are *really* interested, and i'll pass this
message on to them (those that i know are not connected to Usenet). Your port
sounds like a good starting point, though a Minix which runs on the bare
hardware (not under RiscOS) would seem more interesting to me.
But then, the Mac port does the same.

An Electron user,
-                                       Gerben
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