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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ST Minix
Message-ID: <1378@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Sep 88 20:38:05 GMT
References: <3973@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <3973@louie.udel.EDU> VILJANEN%CC.HELSINKI.FI@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen) writes:
>
>I have a question about ST Minix. How much of this posted PC Minix
>stuff will be useful to the ST Minix owner? The 1.2 to 1.3 diffs?
>The networking stuff? Kernel changes? I fear answer will be NO, NO
>and NO. 

The ST kernel and the PC kernel are so different that I doubt that much 
in the way of kernel patches will be applicable, except perhaps some
bug fixes to machine-independent files.  The MINIX-PC 1.3 file system and
memory manager are essentially the same as MINIX-ST 1.1, so I would certainly
save all changes there.  Nearly all changes to other files are probably
applicable, although some may already be there.

As to networking, the Amoeba code is almost completely machine and network
independent.  If you can plug a Western Digital Ethernet card into your ST,
I don't think you will have to change all that much.  For other network types,
you will have to change some things, at the least, the device driver part.

I just got back from England today.  I'll try to find out about the status of
MINIX-ST next week.  When I know something definite, I'll post it.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)