16 Nov
2005
16 Nov
'05
4:38 p.m.
That is exactly why I did not buy the 3 ed. Minux has
been re-wrtten
from a 8088 to a 386+
in the 3rd ed. 8 meg of ram min is needed, 16 recomended. I was buying
BLETCH!!!
That means it wouldn't run on this PC (too little RAM), for all I am
running an old version of linux with no problems.
The reason I bought Minix in the beginning was that it would run on my
PC/XT machine (the only PC I had at the time). And I learnt a fair bit
about OSes and enough C to be dangerous by playing about with it.
8MB and a 386 is not a small machine!
the book for ideas for a small
computer I building. ( hardware real soon ... ) that I have to write
since I have a unque instruction
set and word length. This version of the computer will have 64kb of
memory of 12k to 16kb I want
to save for the OS.
Feel like porting Unix V6 (as in the Lions Book)?
-tony