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From: tomlinson@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (M. Tomlinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Ibem and Minix
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.142343.1176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Jun 91 02:23:42 GMT
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In article <56948@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, Dickson@system-m.az05.bull.com (Paul Dickson) writes:
> Has anyone tried to run Minix under Ibem?  I would expect that Minix
> would need to be recompiled with different console code and floppy
> access code, but does Ibem emulated the rest of the PC hardware (timers,
> dma, etc).

IBeM will not run Minix.  Minix (as far as I understand it) ignores the BIOS completely
and accesses the hardware directly for everything.  At present, IBeM only emulates a
small amount of hardware, eg the screen and keyboard.  The disk access *must* be done
through the BIOS, and apart from the timer tick, there is no timer/DMA support.`

One of the questions I'd ask is why?  Surely Minix exists for the Amiga now, doesn't
it?

 - Mark Tomlinson