Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!metro!macuni!ipc04!s8922967 From: s8922967@ipc04.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray John GILBERT) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix and the Amiga Bridgeboard Message-ID: <1105@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Date: 29 Jun 91 13:28:05 GMT Article-I.D.: macuni.1105 References: <5501.28694f03@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Sender: news@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics Lines: 23 In article <5501.28694f03@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> cdibenedetto@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: > > Help! I've been trying to run the pc Minix demo on my Amiga XT >Bridgeboard. It begins the boot up sequence, telling me its booting Minix, >then the system just hangs. Is anyone running Minix on an Amiga Bridgeboard? >Has anyone got the demo to run? > Thanx in advance! > >---- >Cesi DiBenedetto >cdibenedetto@trantor.sacder.nshore.ncoast.org Even before hearing this I doubted that minix for the IBM would work as is on a bridgeboard because minix is very closely coupled to the IBM hardware - specific chips and all. You probably would need to adjust the source in any area that MSDOS would use the BIOS routines, because minix does not use the BIOS (the BIOS is bad news for multitasking) and I assume from my limited knowledge of the BridgeBoard that the BB is quite different in that area and uses the BIOS to cover up the differences. Cya, Murray #include