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From: charles@thurse.thurse.MN.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Is MINIX on the PC532 dead?
Message-ID: <9106142107.AA16162@thurse.thurse.MN.ORG>
Date: 15 Jun 91 02:07:52 GMT
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I'm sending this to news@daver.bungi.com since my news server is
down.  For me, MINIX on the PC532 is far from dead, but I have
noticed that there has been a lull in postings announcing progress 
on improvements for MINIX/PC532.  I would like anyone who knows of
the following subjects to give us an update on their current status:

1.  Tape driver for MINIX/PC532 for cartridge tapes.

2.  uucp and smail.  (I think someone mentioned having this working.
    has it been posted somewhere and I missed it?)

3.  news software (i.e., rn or something like that.)

4.  gdb (wasn't someone, perhaps Sverre, working on this?)

I am working on tape drive support for the monitor.  I've got an
Archive 2060s, and I've got a program which will read one batch of
sectors from the drive or write a batch to the drive.  However, when
it finishes a read, the program leaves the access light lit on the
drive, and I haven't figured out why yet.  Bruce C. has suggested
that the drive is disconnecting, but I don't get a disconnect message,
and I think (having only had a glimpse of the docs on the drive) that
the default configuration is non-disconnecting mode.  Anybody have any
knowledge of these things?  I'm trying to wangle a set of documentation
on the drive, but it's not easy to get one from the local distributer.
When it's running, it will be available.

Finally, you can add my name to the list of happy 1.5h users.  It is quite
suitable, in my opinion, for developing the applications I've mentioned.

Charles Rennolet
charles@thurse.MN.ORG