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From: djd@cs.columbia.edu (Daniel Duchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix for PS/2 -- status report
Summary: 1.4 works now, 1.5 realsoonnow
Message-ID: <1990Feb18.055158.13498@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 90 05:51:58 GMT
References: <11434@nigel.udel.EDU>
Sender: Dan Duchamp
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In article <11434@nigel.udel.EDU> ast@cs.vu.nl writes:
>
>I believe it runs on PS/2s.  Ask Dan Duchamp at columbia.  I think his
>address is duchamp@cs.columbia.edu

AAAAHHHHH!  Don't do that!  I already get 50-60 mail messages per day.

Here at Columbia we have version 1.4.2 running (in real mode only) on
models 70 and 80.  By the end of this week, I hope we will have 1.5.0
working on the 80, which is the development machine for my (Minix)
group.  A while back, Steve Ackerman of Vermont gave to us version 1.3
that he runs on what I believe is the model 50.  So the brief answer
is that it seems Minix runs pretty well on the PS/2.

We plan to shadow ast's updates to 1.5 as well as we can.  We also
have semi-serious ambitions to do neat things like an ESDI driver and
networking, but -- even if we do succeed -- you won't see these things
before Fall.  As things progress, I will be in touch with ast about
distributing the PS/2 version.