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From: brucee@runx.ips.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the 386
Message-ID: <1914@runx.ips.oz>
Date: 27 Dec 88 05:39:43 GMT
References: <1836@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: brucee@runx.OZ (Bruce Evans)
Organization: RUNX  Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
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I think my 386 port follows Andy's guidelines well. My diffs for mm are only
6K, and for fs only 2K, and most of this is for stuff done non-portably in
the first place. I don't think we have benefited enough from the Atari port
though. Changing the click size from 16 to 256 didn't quite work since there
is some segment arithmetic also using the magic 16.

I would like to see a summary of PC/Atari Minix kernel differences (except
drivers). And are the mm/fs/commands really much the same? There seem to
be a lot of old PC bugs cropping up again in the Atari postings.

The Minix coding style guidelines did not reach here. Please repost them.
I have some problems with the style, mainly indenting a full tab stop at
a time and contortions to avoid this going off the page, and the ugliness
that has crept in from not updating comments with the code (ornate comments
tend to produce larger diffs than code). Also, elle with linewrap wraps at
column 78, messing up the formatting.

Bruce Evans
Internet: brucee@runx.ips.oz.au    UUCP: uunet!runx.ips.oz.au!brucee