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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MAC and Minix
Message-ID: <2063@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 01:23:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2063
Posted: Thu Jul  2 01:23:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 03:30:45 EDT
References: <1756@pbhye.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: C icons port

In article <1756@pbhye.UUCP> josh@pbhye.UUCP (Joshua Stein) writes:
>Has anyone thought of porting Minix to the Mac or is that to wierd? I've always
>thought that one of the drawbacks to the Mac was a lack of multi-tasking and
>wondered if the work involved in porting Minix to the box would be so great
>as to make it not worth the effort?

The critical item for porting minix to other systems is a working 68000 C
compiler and some definitions of how relocation and context switching will
be handled on the 68000.

According to AST there is a group at Phillips in the Netherlands that is
working on a port for the Atari ST.  Once it is available, I pretty sure
a number of people will jump on it and start ports for both the Amiga and
the Mac.

-- 
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