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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Hints needed to start porting MINIX
Message-ID: <2007@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Feb 89 16:15:40 GMT
References: <1191@ttds.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1191@ttds.UUCP> luis@ttds.UUCP (Luis Barriga) writes:
>We are planning to port MINIX to a 68028/68851-based VME Monoboard

>1) What is the best to purchase from PH? 

Use the MINIX-ST disks.  All the 68000 problems have been solved.  The
mag tape is the PC version.  There is no mag tape version for the ST.
We felt that not enough Atari owners had a 9-track industry standard
mag tape to make it worthwhile :-)

In practice, far and away the easiest approach is to buy or borrow an
Atari ST and use it as the development system until the monoboard is
self supporting.  That gives you a working 68000 compiler and a complete
MINIX environment to work in.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)