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From: jw@owf.UUCP (Juerg Wanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Minix
Message-ID: <2969@owf.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 10:09:50 GMT
References: <126@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> <241@lzaz.ATT.COM> <547@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Reply-To: jw@owf.UUCP (Juerg Wanner)
Organization: OWF AG Zurich, Switzerland
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In article <547@nikhefh.hep.nl> n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes:
>a poor student ... ). It does support hard disks, but standard only standard 

I run MINIX with a vortex hard disk which is not really standard although
it understands the same commands (and some more ..). No problems with that.

>The main differences with MINIX-PC: support large model; different fork.
>The fork in MINIX-ST is strange: you make a copy of your text segment and this
>text segment is 'swapped' in memory between parent and child process

Well, this should obviously say data+stack NOT text. The text segment can be
shared.

>The system is robust, I have not seen it crash.

I can second that.

Juerg Wanner
OWF AG