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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MAC and Minix
Message-ID: <6805@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 19:01:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.6805
Posted: Thu Jul  2 19:01:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 11:05:05 EDT
References: <1756@pbhye.UUCP> <2063@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Keywords: C icons port

In article <2063@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
< >Has anyone thought of porting Minix to the Mac or is that to wierd?
< 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.

Another issue would be device drivers.  The Mac device drivers are
asynchronous, so one might be able to use the disk and serial drivers
from the ROM, unlike the case with the IBM PC.  This could simplify
the port.  I, for one, hate doing device drivers...

One possible way to do Minix on the Mac would be to have Minix simply
be a Macintosh application.
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Tim Smith, Knowledgian		{sdcrdcf,seismo}!ism780c!tim