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From: mch@GALAHAD.CAMELOT.CS.CMU.EDU (Mark Hahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: kit wishlist and software
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Date: 16 Feb 88 21:20:54 GMT
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Reply-To: mch@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Hahn)
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: 32k kit, cheap unix.

Use minix - see "Operating Systems - design and implementation," 
Tannenbaum.  Mostly compatable with version 7 unix.  Clean, well documented.
The architecture-dependent code is small and well compartmentalized.
The copyright provides for limited, non-commercial redistribution 
(of sources).

I think the board itself should be a simple design - emphasizing a powerful
cpu, and minimizing io stuff.  Just cpu, mmu, sockets for tons of memory,
perhaps a scsi (dma) interface, maybe a couple of serial ports.  Certainly
no slots, no disk controllers.

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