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From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: minix on atari st
Message-ID: <1630@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 88 00:47:08 GMT
References: <8804141742.AA01455@decwrl.dec.com> <693@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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Summary: get your checkbooks out...


-----FYI

[ from comp.os.minix ]


In article <693@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
->
->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)




straight from the horse's mouth :^)


-bill