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From: msdloem@cs.vu.nl (Loemban tobing Msd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix on Atari Mega STe?
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Date: 14 May 91 12:38:15 GMT
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micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen) writes:

>HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:

>>When I tested it, MINIX booted on a MEGA STE 4 without problems, but
>>it booted in 8MHz cache-less mode, as dhrystone figures showed.

>Yes, this is because that the MEGA STE allways boots in compatibility
>mode, it assumes that auto-booting things are games or some other picky 
>things...
>You will have to write a program that flips the flag, to get full speed.

>-Klaus (micro@imada.ou.dk)

There's something strange with my Mega STE4 and Minix. When I boot minix
from a boot diskette, Single or Double sided, as soon as the Ram Disk is
loaded, it Gives a Signal 11 at the start of INIT, and does nothing.
However, this doesn't occur when I boot the same minix image using
MINIX.PRG. BTW, When I use MINIX.PRG and boot minix after the desktop
has come up, I get 50000 dhrystones in 44 sec. On my old ST in +/- 78 sec.
When I use MINIX on my Mega STE, I can't use CTRL-ALT-DEL to reset. I have
to turn off the switch, and turn it back on again. Even the Reset-button
doesn't work properly.

-Martin (msdloem@cs.vu.nl)

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