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From: cazabon@hercules (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Ibem and Minix
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Date: 25 Jun 91 08:38:01 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).

It might work; but I doubt it.  I am not particularly familiar with Minix, but
first of all, IBeM only emulates an XT (8088).  Doesn't Minix require at the very
minimum a 286?

Also, on a 25 mHz A3000, IBeM runs about 0.5 to 0.7 times as fast as a
4.77 mHz 8088.  This is damn slow, and I think that Minix would crawl under
it even if it did work.  I mean, like fifteen minutes to log in!


--Chuck Cazabon, cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca
* My Opinions Are Not My Own...Feel Free To Plagiarize