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From: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The Amiga Port
Message-ID: <2390@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 88 14:27:04 GMT
References: <1483@louie.udel.EDU> <343@wsccs.UUCP> <1781@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Ingo Cyliax)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <1781@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>In article <343@wsccs.UUCP>, wes@wsccs.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>> In article <1483@louie.udel.EDU>, TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>> Why is it a dead issue?  Because you are not interested?  I bet you beleive
>> your bedroom is the center of the universe, too!
>> ...
>> Seriously, if you aren't interested in Minix, why are you here telling
>> everyone why they DON'T want it for the Amiga?  Go back to comp.sys.amiga
>> and 3-line function calls.
>
>Now hold on there, flamer.  You apparently haven't been reading
>comp.os.minix for long.  The idea of doing a Minix port for the 
>Amiga has been beaten to death.  The consensus has been that Minix needs 
>a way to relocate logical address zero and the Amiga can't (the ST can,
>hence an ST port is, or is nearly, available), making it a *big* job.  

How is that ? The Atari does not have any mapping registers. I assume
that Minix for the ST will relocate the program at start-up, much like
it does for GEM/TOS. I would expect people to come up with a native
port to the Amiga soon after Minix-St is available.

If I had an Amiga, I would certainly be interested enough to run Minix
on it, to even try porting it myself. It would also be relativly easy to
have the same load format and syscall interface for both the Amiga and
Atari so you could actually run the same binary on it. And as soon
as we have X :-), we could also have a standard windowing system for both
of them.


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