Minix - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Nov 2005

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Subject: Re: Minix
   From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
   Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:38:07 +0000 (GMT)
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

  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 
Earlier versions are still available all the way back to 1.5 on line.

Allison