dave@nancy.uucp (Dave Harris) (01/15/91)
I'm getting a lap top some time soon and would like to run MINIX on it, can anyone tell of any foreseeable problems. I intend to get MINIX 1.5. I will be using an AST Premium Exec 386SX with an IDE 40 Meg drive from Conner The system will have 2 megs of memory. Does the 1.5 version of MINIX support hard drives?... Which drives? I have heard rumblings about The Bellcore window manager MGR being ported to MINIX.. Can anyone elaborate on it. I understand that it uses STREAMS with are SYS5. I do not think anyone would have hacked MINIX for STREAMS, but what about TCP/IP and sockets? Also has anyone hacked shared memory? While we are on the subject of advances in MINIX does 1.5 support virtual memory.... Oh heck where can I get a list of the hacks done to the MINIX kernel to bring it a lil past Version 7. @ O 0 o 0 O @ O 0 o 0 O @ O 0 o 0 O @ 0 ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ ~T~ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ /^\ @ He may not have a vision for |David A. Harris @ ASC just another bandit@ ~T~ America's future, but he must |dave@asc.com or dave%nancy@uunet.uu.net ~T~ /^\ have had a fantasy of his presidency....Mark Alan Stamaty /^\ :;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/18/91)
As quoted from <1991Jan15.004009.29924@nancy.uucp> by dave@nancy.uucp (Dave Harris): +--------------- | hard drives?... Which drives? I have heard rumblings about The Bellcore window | manager MGR being ported to MINIX.. Can anyone elaborate on it. I understand | that it uses STREAMS with are SYS5. I do not think anyone would have hacked | MINIX for STREAMS, but what about TCP/IP and sockets? +--------------- MGR uses ptys and some form of multiplexed input checking (read: poll() or select()). It does not use *any* other advanced features; communication between MGR and clients is via escape sequences on the pty. (I've been whacking it into portability to SCO UNIX for a month; I'm fairly familiar with its gizzards by now.) ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY