Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
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From: lansd@eecg.toronto.edu (Robert Lansdale)
Subject: Porting MINIX to non-Atari Machines...
Message-ID: <88Dec20.190934est.2383@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 88 19:09:33 EST

	I have read a few messages lately from MINIX gurus attesting to
the long and tedious hours required to port MINIX to other machines. I
am just putting the final touches on a 68000 board to be used as a host for
my DSP multi-processor, and thought it would be a good lesson in O/S
porting if I was to port the Atari code to this machine.

	The machine in question only has a SCSI port and two RS-232
lines, no floppies. For code compilation and development I could use
my Atari-ST and Mark Williams C Version 3.0. 

	What I would like to know is: how much time will I have to
invest to get MINIX 1.3 up and running on the board? Of this time,
what proportion will be spent updating the 1.1 sources to 1.3, looking
for updates, etc.

	While I'm asking, has anyone ported MINIX to the Motel Cypher
68000 computer?

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