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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Apple ][ Minix
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Date: 5 May 89 01:17:09 GMT
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I have no qualms with seeing a 65816 Minix (ala Apple //gs) but on a stock
Apple with a 6502 and a 64k address space makes it impossible.  The 1.2 PC
kernel is 89K after it's booted, and you need a ramdisk for the root file
system, so that's just 360K of RAM just to start up (roughly).  And I
personally wouldn't try it on any processor unless it supported at least 1 MB
of addressible memory intrinsicly.  I have seen 6502 machines with up 1 MB
address space, but these were hardware hacks, nothing standard.
 
 JCA

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