grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (01/24/88)
I found this over in the Atari group. Most of the noise about porting minix to the Amiga seems to have died down, but with the availability of an "official" 68000 based version, the rest shouldn't be too hard... In article <213@nlgvax.UUCP> johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson) writes: > In article <317@inuxj.UUCP> wolenty@inuxj.UUCP (R Wolenty) writes: > > > >Could anyone tell me what is the status of the MINIX port to > >the ST? > > It will be available from Prentice Hall around June 88. > I am wrapping it up right now into a set of diskettes for > reproduction. > A more extensive announcement will follow. > > Johan W. Stevenson, > Philips Research Laboratories, > Project Centre Geldrop, > Building XR, Room 15, > Willem Alexanderlaan 7B, > 5664 AN Geldrop, The Netherlands. > phone: +31 40 892205 > uucp: mcvax!nlgvax!johan -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/27/88)
MINIX is a new operating system that is system call compatible with V7 UNIX. Unlike real UNIX, it is available with all the source code, both the kernel and all the utilities. The purpose of this message is to announce its availability on the 68000 CPU, specifically the Atari-ST. However, since it should not be too hard to port it to other 68000-based computers (e.g., Amiga, Macintosh), this message is being crossposted to a number of newsgroups. This will be the only announcement outside comp.os.minix. When MINIX is run on the Atari ST (or MegaST) it replaces the native operating system (TOS) and turns the computer into a normal UNIX machine. MINIX has been running on the IBM PC, XT, AT, and many clones, including 386s for almost two years. The IBM version is in widespread use all over the world. The original (IBM) version was written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. The Atari port was done by Johan Stevenson and Jost Muller. MINIX does not contain even a single line of AT&T code. Thus both the operating system and the utilities are all brand new code. MINIX FEATURES: - System call compatible with V7 UNIX (except for a few very minor calls) - Kernighan and Ritchie compatible C compiler is included - Shell that is functionally identical to the Bourne shell is included - Full multiprogramming (fork+exec; background jobs in shell: cc file.c & ) - Full screen editor inspired by emacs (modeless, autoinsert, etc.) included - Ability to read and write TOS disks - Over 90 popular utilities provided (cat, grep, ls, make, mount, sort, etc.) - Over 100 library procedures provided (atoi, fork, malloc, stdio, etc.) - Works with floppy-only systems or with hard disk systems - Full operating system source code (in C) is included - Source code for all the utilities (except C compiler) is included PARTIAL LIST OF THE MINIX COMMANDS: ar as badblocks basename cal cat cc cem cg chmem chmod chown clr cmp comm compress cp cpdir cpp cv date dd df diff diskcheck du echo expr factor false find fix fsck getlf grep gres head kill ld ln login lpr ls make megartc mined mkdir mkfs mknod more mount mv od opt passwd pr printenv pwd readall readfs rev rm rmdir roff sh shar size sleep sort split stty su sum sync tail tar tee test time tos touch tr treecmp true umount uniq update uudecode uuencode wc PARTIAL LIST OF THE MINIX LIBRARY: abort abs access alarm atoi atol bcopy brk call chdir chmod chown chroot cleanup close creat crypt ctime ctype doprintf dup dup2 exec exit fclose fflush fgets fopen fork fprintf fputs fread freopen fseek fstat ftell fwrite getc getegid getenv geteuid getgid getgrent getpass getpid getpwent gets getuid gtty index ioctl isatty itoa kill link lseek malloc mknod mktemp mount open pause perror pipe popen putc puts qsort rand read regexp regsub rindex scanf setbuf setgid setuid signal sleep sprintf stat stime strcat strcmp strcpy strlen strncat strncmp strncpy stty sync system termcap time times umask umount ungetc unlink utime wait write NEWSGROUP There is a USENET newsgroup, comp.os.minix, concerned with MINIX. This group is gatewayed to the ARPANET, BITNET, etc. If you cannot read USENET newsgroups directly, you can get on the mailing list by sending a request to info-minix-request@udel.edu The group is very active, and well worth reading if you are interested in MINIX. It is used for reporting bugs, fixing bugs, posting new software, asking and answering questions, and so on. At some point it may be necessary to split the group (IBM vs. Atari; source code vs discussion; ...) but for the time being, there are no plans to split it. Time will tell. There are archives of the messages that have been posted to comp.os.minix. For an information sheet telling about MINIX and the archives, send email to ast@cs.vu.nl or watch the newsgroup. Although this message is being crossposted to several groups, this will be the only announcement. Please post all subsequent discussion to comp.os.minix ONLY. The group is unmoderated. Please do not discuss the PDP-11 memory management unit or other irrelevant topics. DOCUMENTATION There is a book describing MINIX is great detail, both how to use it and how it works inside. The book contains a highly annotated copy of the O/S code as an appendix (250 pages). This version is slightly out-of-date, but it is still quite usable. The bibliographic data on the book are as follows: Title: Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 Date: 1987 ISBN: 0-13-637406-9 (hardback version, U.S and Canada only) 0-13-637331-3 (paperback version, outside of U.S. and Canada) Price: about $40 although bookstores may charge whatever they want The book is currently in the process of being translated into German. There is also a paperback MINIX Reference Manual that is a subset of the book. It contains only the MINIX specific information, not the general background stuff on operating systems that the book contains. The reference manual is about $35. There is also a package containing the disks and the reference manual combined going for about $110. I think there may soon be a package containing the reference manual and the Atari disks. The Atari disks come with a little booklet telling how to boot the system and how it differs from MINIX-PC (IBM version). Effectively it is a diff listing between MINIX-ST and MINIX-PC. It makes no attempt to repeat the 500 or so pages on MINIX from the book or manual. AVAILABILITY MINIX is something of an intermediate form between AT&T UNIX and GNU. Unlike GNU, MINIX is not public domain. It is copyrighted by Prentice-Hall and is being sold by them. The price for the Atari disks in the U.S. is $80 + shipping (somewhat higher abroad) and includes all the source code. On the other hand, unlike AT&T UNIX, the source code is readily available, and may be copied for bona fide educational and research use. For example, a professor teaching a course on operating systems could legally buy the disks and then make copies for all his students. A very limited amount of private copying (say, no more than 3 copies per original) for personal friends is ok. If this gets out of hand, and Prentice-Hall decides that not enough have been sold, they will just drop the Atari and have future versions be for the IBM only. It is the intention that future versions be compatible with POSIX. In the U.S. you can order the software and books from most bookstores or directly from Prentice-Hall in NJ. The ISBN number for the Atari software is 0-13-584392-8. Prentice-Hall's phone number is (201) 767-5937. In the U.K. there are two dealers as listed below. The price in the U.K. is 88.50 pounds sterling + VAT Prentice-Hall International SDL Ltd Attention: Mark McDonagh Unit 10 66 Wood Lane End Ruxley Corner Industrial Estate Hemel Hempstead Sidcup Bypass England Kent DA14 5SS Telephone: +44 442 231555 The distributors for Europe are listed below. The European price is $110.40. In Germany: Steve Steinkrauf Feldtorweg 24 D3406 Bovenden 1 FRG In Holland: Jos de Jong Postbus 184 2100AD Heemstede Holland In Scandinavia: Frank O'Donell P.O. Box 88 1371 Asker Norway In Spain Deborah Worth and Portugal: Appartado Numero 50672 Madrid Spain In Italy: Jim Blaho Via Manzani 50 50018 Scandicci Florence Italy In Greece: Vassilis Zahos Kriconas 57 GR11634 Athens Greece In Turkey: Attilla Gullu Millinudafaa Cad 14/7 Kizilay Ankara Turkey If you have questions whose answers are likely to be of interest to many people, post them to comp.os.minix. If you have questions that are very specific and you don't want to broadcast to 10,000 machines in several dozen countries, send mail to one of us. PC-specific questions should go to ast; Atari specific questions should go to Johan. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Johan Stevenson (johan@nlgvax.nl) P.S. domain nl is The Netherlands, where both of us are located. If your mailer does not know where this is, buy a good world atlas, digitize it, and feed it to the mailer.
robocop@netmbx.UUCP (Thorsten Ebers) (01/16/89)
Does Minix exists for the Amiga ? If the answer is yes,where will i get it. Thorsten -- Thorsten Ebers Overseas:..pyramid!tmpmbx!netmbx!robocop Goerresstr.20 Europe :..altger!tmpmbx!netmbx!robocop 1000 Berlin 41 Germany :robocop@netmbx.UUCP Germany Phone:030/851 84 60
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (01/17/89)
In article <1996@netmbx.UUCP> robocop@netmbx.UUCP (Thorsten Ebers) writes: >Does Minix exists for the Amiga ? >If the answer is yes,where will i get it. >Thorsten I wish I didn't have to give these answers, BUT... It does not yet exist for the Amiga. Someone has announced they want to work on it. We have not heard any progress reports from said person. There are several requests a month asking if it's out yet. Seems to me it will be really popular once it gets out. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** Who sometimes never learns. {backbone site|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where Christian movies are banned. *** ``There's only TWO THINGS come out of Oklahoma...''
Dickson@system-m.phx.bull.com (Paul Dickson) (02/03/90)
> Is minix available for the Amiga?
Yes and no. There is a port of Minix but the MINIX filesystem disks are
in the ST-MINIX's format. This would make it difficult to do Minix
development work on the Amiga (the Amiga has so much better compilers).
There is also no support for Amiga hard drives. From appearences, it is
a simple port from the ST version.
dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff) (11/27/90)
I keep hearing about this Minix. What is it exactly? Where can I get information about it? Who makes it? What's their address? Phone Number? etc. Thanks in advance. -- Darin Sheriff. Just a College student with an Amiga. "According to the classical laws of Aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly." --- DR WHO --- Disclaimer: Wasn't me.
hoover@math4.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Sch"urkamp) (01/03/91)
Dear people, first of all happy new year to everyone! Has anyone heard of a freeware version of Minix for the Amiga? Cheers in advance, hoover --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMAIL: hoover (Uwe Sch"urkamp) "our obligation to survive and flourish is hoover@math4.uni-bielefeld.de old, not just to ourselves, but to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring." --- Carl Sagan, `Cosmos' SNAIL: --------------------------------------------- Uwe Schuerkamp OS/2 --- half an operating system. Joellenbecker Weg 4 --- unknown D-4900 Herford Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dave@exactus.UUCP (Dave) (01/06/91)
> Has anyone heard of a freeware version of Minix for the Amiga? you can find all about it on comp.os.minix. MINIX is not freeware though. Dave +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | David Salas | Exactus : David Salas | | President | Genie : EXAC-DAVE | | Exactus Information Services | UUCP : exactus!dave | | (707) 524-2548 @ 2400 (8N1) | Fax : (707) 524-2546 | | (707) 524-2553 @ 9600/1400 (V32/HST) | Voice : (707) 524-2547 | +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------+