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From: zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary T. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix in ROM
Message-ID: <EXyMuDy00XobE3skFX@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 89 14:51:59 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm considering porting Minix to one of two machines, only one of
which exists as of yet;  the first is a Sharp laptop XT, and if I liked
the port enough, I'd put in an EPROM-disk, which that mahcine supports.
The other machine I'm considering is a port to a vanilla 68000 homebrew
whose design I am still playing with, most likely to reside in EPROM.

My questions are:

First, has anyone ported Minix to the Sharp-4501 or 4502, and if so, how
large was the final executable program, total?  Indeed, how large is ANY
port of Minix to an 8088/x86 PC?

Second, how much code could I expect for a port to a 68000-class machine?

Any help appreciated.... zts