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From: janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga version of Minix
Summary: What? Poorly documented hardware???
Message-ID: <299@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 10 Jan 89 13:30:47 GMT
References: <22766@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <1877@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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In article <1877@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> In article <22766@pbhya.PacBell.COM> jwste@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Jerry W Steffler) writes:
> >Is there a version of Minix for the Amiga?  Is anyone working on a version
> >for the Amiga?  I am a beginning C programmer (self teach) and do not think
> >that I can port it over with any success.
> 
> I agree.  When learning to program, porting a multiprogramming operating
> system to a piece of poorly documented hardware probably shouldn't be project
> number 1. 
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

I wouldn't call the Amiga 'poorly documented hardware'. There is
something called '(Commodore-Amiga) Hardware Reference Manual',
published by Addison/Wesley, that contains (almost) all information
you normally should not want to know. And besides, the Amiga already
has a proper multitasking operating system.

-Olaf Seibert