27 Feb
1998
27 Feb
'98
8 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, John Rollins wrote:
Well, I'm definitley not a Minix junkie, I
haven't even had time to get
around to putting it on one of my 8088's, but I think the current version
is 2.0, which I think will run on an 8086/88 if you have enough disk space
and a way to get all that stuff onto the drive. You would probably want a
286 to do anything with 2.0. For some strange reason, I downloaded Minix
1.1 to install(probably because it will fit on a bunch of 360k disks, but
1.1 doesn't do much, everyone told me to use 1.5). Try checking out the
comp.os.minix newsgroup.
A little surfing revealed that Minix is alive, but not doing so well.
I couldn't connect to ast's site, but he's got a co-author now that had a
home page up:
http://minix1.hampshire.edu/index.html
The good news is that Minix is now free, and it's got networking support
(including a web server). The bad news is that it's gained some weight.
2.0 might barely run on a 640K PC, and even 1.5 wants 512K. Maybe I'll
wait for ELKS after all. All I want is to run a few network daemons and
a shell in 128K RAM. Is that too much to ask for?
BTW, is yowza(a)yowza.com a real address? Sounds funny
to me...
Yes, it's real, and yes, it's annoying. I'm not crazy about the trend of
archiving, HTMLizing, and web indexing mailing lists, so I hide behind
this address whenever I may say something inane (often) that I don't want
published for posterity. I decided to play this game after I searched for
my name in a search engine once and found some email I wrote in 1985!
-- Doug