25 Oct
2024
25 Oct
'24
7:30 a.m.
On 10/24/2024 10:04 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2024-10-24 4:35 p.m., Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
The original IBM PC on which Minix ran (I still have my
copies of the original) was an Intel 8088.
bill
And yet, Minix ran on the 8088.
NO the PC, and even then it was developed under a
UNIX emulator.
Some where I read, wen ported to the PC it would randomly crash.
This was later found to a case of undocumented irq service routine
for memory parity errors.