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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the ST?  IT'S ARRIVED!
Keywords: Info about it please!
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Date: 18 Oct 88 08:40:41 GMT
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In article <545@nikhefh.hep.nl> n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes:
>Can you or anybody else who has ST Minix give info about it:
>1.	Which version number.
>2.	Which programs are supplied ( is there networking software ?).

The package is being called ST Minix 1.1. It includes various commands and
features corresponding to PC Minix 1.2. There is no networking software in
the pre-release I have. (There isn't even an rs232 driver. Ah, these
wonderful "exercises left for the reader...") One of my goals in working
with this system will be to bring it to a level corresponding to version 1.3
on the PC. It comes with compress and tar, which is pretty nice. I'm not
sure I want to try to port ARC to it, since I like tar better anyway.

Using register variables in the compilation, it clocks in at about 526
dhrystones/second. Anyone got ratings for other systems I could compare
with?
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