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From: dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Looking For MINIX-ST
Message-ID: <714@tellab5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 23:46:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: tellab5.714
Posted: Tue Oct  6 23:46:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 07:38:05 EDT
Reply-To: dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
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I am a hardware design engineer who is VERY interested in the MINIX operating
system as a self-improvement tool.  I have just finished a "home brewed" 
68000 single board computer and I'm hoping to use it as a foundation for
learning more about operating systems.

I have purchased the MINIX textbook along with the source and binaries.
My intentions were to port MINIX over to my 68000 based board as part of
a self taught operating systems course.  After hearing about the MINIX port
to the ATARI-ST, I now believe that MINIX-ST would be a much better base
for this type of a project.  I have tried to contact the people doing
the MINIX-ST port, but they have not responded.

Ideally, I would like to get a copy of the MINIX-ST when it is at a stable
point.  This would save me the trouble of dealing with the general 
C portability problems that have been encountered so far - after all, my goal 
is to learn more about operating systems, not C portability problems.

I'm not too thrilled about purchasing another copy of the MINIX source
when the ST version becomes available.  The MINIX compiler is not 
absolutely necessary for me since I have a cross compiler.

Does anybody have any advice on how I might solve this dilemma?
Any comments Andy ??

Any help that anyone could offer me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.


Dan Dietrich
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