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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MINIX on the ATARI ST
Message-ID: <1598@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 17:10:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 17:10:52 1987
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: MINIX Atari ST
Summary: does not need much disk space
Xref: mnetor comp.os.minix:1112 comp.sys.atari.st:4244

[in response to question whether 20Meg HD is enough for MINIX]

If MINIX on the ST will be similar to the IBM-PC version, it won't require
much in terms of disk space.  MINIX is designed to be usable off a FLOPPY.
It is compact and so are the utilities (about 1K each) and the commonly used
utilities are kept in a RAMdisk.  If it can run on a 640K RAM / 360K disk
machine I'm sure it will run on a 1 (2?4?) Meg RAM / 720K disk machine.
The compactness of MINIX is its major advantage over other UNIX lookalikes
and other multi-tasking schemes.  Now if it was just completed...

- Moshe Braner

PS: don't worry, you'll need those 20 Megs for TeX 71
P