ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (03/07/91)
This is being posted on the request of Mr Chung. Any answers should go to him.
Andy Tanenbaum
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Hi Andy! Everybody here at UCLA in CS111 (Operating System) really
appreciates your Minix and we are definately having a lot of fun
having to be able to act as the ever-powerful root and change the
whole OS around. Thanks. In fact, I am so into Minix now I want to
take it home and put it on my portable. And that brings me to my
questions:
1) I have a Toshiba 3100SX, 2M RAM, 80 Meg Harddisk, 2 unused paritions
of 10Megs each (drive e: and f:). I'd like to put Minix 1.2 or 1.5
on e: of f:. My professor in CS111 had once said that Minix disk
drivers are hardware specific, so will there be a problem there?
And also, my laptop is 386SX, and I know it is backward compatible
with 286, but will it also be compatible with minix (which is
designed to run on AT's, as far as I know).
2) I tried to post this in comp.os.minix but nobody around seems to
know how to post a message. Feel free to post my question in
rn.
Ivan Chung (ichung@seas.ucla.edu)