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From: cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: re: Porting MINIX to new machines
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Date: 9 Sep 88 01:56:13 GMT
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Geof Lane (University of Manchester) writes

> What is the situation regards porting MINIX to new machines? Where does one
> get the information required? Who's permissions have to be obtained? What
> kind of effort is involved? What are the minimum hardware requirements to
> implement MINIX? Does anybody know of any project to implement MINIX on the
> Acorn Archimedes machines?

I am in a similar situation. The intention is to implement a minimal Operating
System on a closely coupled multi-processor NS32000 based machine.

Does any one have experience in porting MINIX to this type of architecture.

Please either mail directly to me or post follow ups.

tks Andrew Cagney                       ACSnet: cagney@smokey.ua.oz (prefered)
    University of Adelaide                  or  cagney@chook.ua.oz
    Adelaide, South Australia