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From: bull@noao.arizona.edu (Frank Bull   CCS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Minix for ST
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Date: 21 Apr 88 04:37:10 GMT
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Keywords: minix st

This just came in on comp.os.minix. Thought it might be of some interest
to our news group.

:In article <8804141742.AA01455@decwrl.dec.com> powers@devcim.dec.com (Bill Powers HLO1-1/T05 DTN 225-7094) writes:
:>
:>     Has anyone ported minix to the atari st??  If yes, where can I
:>  get a hold of it, and at what cost??
:
:MINIX for the ATARI ST is now finished and has been sent to Prentice-Hall
:for reproduction and publication.  I will post a thorough description of
:the system, etc. as soon as P-H can give me more definite information about
:date of availability, pricing etc.  It will probably be available sometime
:during the summer, and for a price under $100 (including all the sources).
:I will post more when I know more.  Please don't send mail asking, because
:I don't know.  I won't forget to post an announcement when I know. Honest.
:If anyone is seriously interested in porting MINIX to the Amiga or Macintosh
:I or II, let me know.  It will be several months of hard work for an expert who
:knows the target machine up and down, backward and forward, inside and out. The
:main issue is writing I/O drivers for the clock, tty, disk, etc., or hooking
:up to the ROM routines, where appropriate.  Beginners need not apply.
:
:Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

"Facts are finite, but ignorance is as boundless
 as the Universe"

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