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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Porting minix to a Stride -- has anyone tried it?
Keywords: Stride 400 600 68000
Message-ID: <25db007a.1d17@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 90 19:18:18 GMT
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Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
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Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <13985@cbnews.ATT.COM> clh@cbnews.ATT.COM (Chris Harting) writes:
>Has anyone out there ported minix to a Stride 400 or 600 series machine?  I
>have a Stride 420 (12MHz 68000, 512K RAM, 2 floppies) that I would like to
>bring back from the dead (CP/M-68K, p-System) and into the modern world without
>breaking the bank.  (Gcc would be nice, too...)

I think this is a wonderful idea.  Probably one of the smartest things I
have heard in a long time.  Whatever happened to all those Stride and Sage
boxes that were great hardware without a usable operating system?

I should think that if there was a way to actually locate the Strides that
are stashed in closets and storage warehouses, there would be a potential
used market to csc students that want their own Unix (well, Minix) systems.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.