Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf
From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix for Z100
Message-ID: <13180@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 16 Apr 89 02:28:37 GMT
Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU
Lines: 23

Robert L. Armstrong@CUP.PORTAL.COM writes:
  > Can anyone tell me if Minix has been ported to the
  > Zenith Z100 (not PC).

That question has been asked before - several times - and I've never
seen anyone reply.  I think the answer must be "no".  However, searching
though my memory banks, I think the Z100 used pretty much the same chips,
so it shouldn't be too hard to port.  However, Minix boots up with BIOS
calls for the disk activity, and the Z100, if I recall correctly, did not
have the BIOS in ROM.  Instead, it loaded in from the boot disk.  So that
would have to be changed.  Since Minix does not use BIOS calls once it
gets loaded in (unless one is using bios_wini.c for the disk driver) it
should largely be OK once it gets in.

It would be interesting to see what Minix could do with another CPU - the
Z100 has two of them (an 8088 and an 8085) sharing a commom m^Emory.
Perhaps one could have "parallel processing Minix".

John Nal
(aka John Nall -- bad keyboard!)
Computer Science Department
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida