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From: nhc@cbnewsj.att.com (n.h.chandler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Porting Minix?
Summary: UNIXpc/7300/3b1
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.161029.5641@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:10:29 GMT
References: <49856@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <49856@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
> It is no problem to port MINIX to another 68K box.
> You will have to rewrite the device drivers. The assembly code stuff
> needs only pretty slight changes.
> 
> The 68010 comes along with a different exception stack format for bus
> and address errors - not too compilcated to change this.
> 
> C.v.W.

To port MINIX to another 68K box, would one have to purchase a copy of
ST MINIX if one already bought PC MINIX 1.5 (PH)?

Neville Chandler