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From: hermit@shockeye.UUCP (Mark Buda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix on 386 machines
Message-ID: <276@shockeye.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 19:29:12 GMT
References: <5998@louie.udel.EDU> <17124@dhw68k.cts.com> <15062@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: hermit@shockeye.UUCP (Mark Buda)
Organization: The Lab Rats
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In article <15062@mimsy.UUCP> jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
>In article <17124@dhw68k.cts.com> allan@dhw68k.cts.com (Alan Perry) writes:
>>
>>Are there any 386 machines that Minix runs on (I know that I, the keeper
>>of the compatability list, should know, but the list isn't handy)?
>
>Well, it at least runs on the Intel iSBC 386-AT (yes, it's in the
>compatibility list).  Actually, lots of people seem to have Minix working
>on their 386s.

I got both Minix 1.1 and 1.2 to work on both a Genuine IBM PC/XT with an
Intel InBoard 386, and on a Fountain 386. The Fountain needed a small patch
to the floppy driver; about one line of code. Just a cheap clone
controller, I guess.

I would be more than happy to do all of the work on a 386 version of Minix
myself, if I had a 386 C compiler. It is impossible to get GNU C to compile
under MS-DOS and remain sane. But I had this idea... I could get the
binaries for the VAX version of GNU C, and write a VAX emulator, and use
the emulator to run the VAX GCC to compile a 386 GCC to run on a VAX, and
then use the emulator to run the 386 GCC to compile Minix.

Am I insane?
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