Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Re: MINIX and the Amiga2000
Message-ID: <1803@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 23 Dec 87 20:05:04 GMT
References: <842@louie.udel.EDU> <1790@botter.cs.vu.nl> <812@tellab5.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: 680x0 based MINIX & cc68k

In article <812@tellab5.UUCP> dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich) writes:
>I've been working on a port of MINIX to a custom 68010 board built by myself.
> ...

The Atari version of MINIX does core swapping.  If done right, it is not 
all that bad in terms of performance.  Basically, it might add something
on the order of 10 msec to a fork of the average sized program, but given 
the rate at which forks are normally done (a few per minute), it is
completely negligible.

It is the intention that Atari MINIX will come with a 68000 C compiler.
There is no "upgrade path" from IBM to Atari MINIX.  Too much has changed.
However, the Atari version will contain most of the fixes I have posted to
the net since 1.2, and which will eventually be in 1.3.
The V1.3 system for the IBM PC won't be around until next summer, at the
earliest.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)