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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX compatibility (was MINIX and the Tandy 1000)
Message-ID: <2337@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 00:54:39 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2337
Posted: Thu Apr  9 00:54:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 11:24:16 EST
References: <1127@botter.cs.vu.nl> <472@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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As quoted from <472@moncol.UUCP> by john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer):
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| In article <1127@botter.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
| >
| >I talked to Prentice-Hall today and was informed that they began shipping MINIX
| >diskettes on March 23.  Hopefully people will begin getting them soon.
| >When you get yours, try it on whatever kind of clones you have around,
| >and post a note to the news group saying what happened.
| 
| Well, Monmouth College's copy of the 640K PC package arrived yesterday.
| Last evening I tried to bring up a copy on my personal machine- a Tandy
| 1000. (Most of the PC's at Monmouth are AT&T 6300's- MINIX runs great on
| them, though I haven't tried the HD yet.)
| 
| Summary: MINIX won't run on the Tandy 1000.
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I got it today (YAAY!!!) and tried it on my ITT XTRA -- with the old ROMs
which are not totally compatible with the PC.  (Again, I haven't tried the
HD yet.)

Summary:  MINIX runs fine on the ITT XTRA.

Thank you, Dr. Tanenbaum, for a UNIXlike system for my PC that doesn't bankrupt me
and that works.

++Brando
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