12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
2:43 a.m.
Ensor wrote:
Hi,
I bought the MINIX version for the Atari ST and installed it, but I used
it as a toy, I don't remember recompiling the kernal.
It had full kernal source, and all the tools to rebuild. I think you're
mistaken saying it was useless. Any development environment
that supplied device access and process management was a good base to
develop. Anything with a prompt.
Jim Davis.
Most of my projects consist of bare hardware, data sheets and a cross
development environment..
Couldn't both of them, FORTRAN and a C
compiler be optional
packages/ports?
While I agree that a FORTRAN compiler could be optional, how exactly
do you expect to get any useful (or in fact *ANY*) software installed
without access to a "C" compiler?
Since we're talking about a non-mainstream, minimalist distribution,
it's unlikely in the extreme that any particular package you want
would be available as a binary distribution.... It's for this very
reason that, back in the late 80's, "Minix" was utterly useless as
anything more than an educational tool/curiosity!
Much though I hate the language, a "C" compiler is most definitely
*NON* optional.
TTFN - Pete.