ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (12/05/90)
Just when everyone has stabilized on 1.5.10, here we go again. I am about to send 1.6.10 to the beta test group. If you want to join this group (i.e., get 700K of quasi-debugged compressed cdifs), send a message to Glen Overby at overby@plains.nodak.edu now. If the beta group likes it, maybe I'll post a subsequent version to the net. The posting is relative to to 1.5.10 (== PH 1.5), so you need that fully operational to beta test. Comments on 1.6.10: 1. Designed for ANSI C (compiler not included); hopefully works with K&R C. 2. Supports V1 and V2 file systems (partitions to 2000 gigabytes, etc.) 3. Thought to conform to P1003.1 Chapters 5 and 6 4. Zillions of other changes. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) (12/06/90)
Organization: Not an Organization In article <8420@star.cs.vu.nl>, Andy Tanenbaum writes: > >Just when everyone has stabilized on 1.5.10, here we go again. I am >about to send 1.6.10 to the beta test group. If you want to join this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Will that also be for AMiga-Minix ??? -Heiko -- O|O Heiko W.Rupp | hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org | Gerwigstr.5 | There is someone in my head, but it's not me U FRG-7500 Karlsruhe 1 | - Pink Floyd Voice : + 49 721 693642| Do You know where Your towel is ???
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (12/08/90)
In article <18512bca.ARN0f29@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org writes: >Organization: Not an Organization > >In article <8420@star.cs.vu.nl>, Andy Tanenbaum writes: >>Just when everyone has stabilized on 1.5.10, here we go again. I am >>about to send 1.6.10 to the beta test group. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Will that also be for AMiga-Minix ??? Technically, no, but since the FS and MM code is identical for all versions, and nearly all the changes between 1.5.10 and 1.6.10 are in FS and MM, with a bit of work, 1.6.10 might work on the 68000. It is definitely worth a try. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (12/09/90)
Dear Andy, take care that the new code will be compilable by an 'old-fashioned' K&R compiler. This will make the experimental guys which port MINIX to new platforms happy (say, for a T800, a K&R-compiler is easier to get/write than a full-fledged ANSI compiler). These experimentalists are indispensable for the progress of MINIX. C.v.W.
hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) (12/11/90)
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes: >Dear Andy, >take care that the new code will be compilable by an 'old-fashioned' >K&R compiler. This will make the experimental guys which port MINIX >to new platforms happy (say, for a T800, a K&R-compiler is easier to get/write >than a full-fledged ANSI compiler). And please take also those poor people into account who use a compiler (bcc) which cannot assign structures. Not everybody working with Minix-386 has enough memory to run GCC. (It is fascinating how fast a fighter for ANSI-C like me "There is no C but ANSI-C" changes his mind if he is forced to use an old compiler). Alternatively you can make the source code for the compiler and people will make it work on a 386 (This would get you lots of applause :-). -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technical University Vienna | as evolution | | | | | Dept. for Real-Time Systems | in action! | | __/ | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | Tony Rand |
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (12/11/90)
There will be another small 386 compiler (with source) available soon - which assigns structures, of course. Hope you are on-line with c68! C.v.W.
waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred van Kempen) (12/12/90)
In article <18512bca.ARN0f29@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>, hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) wrote: > Organization: Not an Organization > > In article <8420@star.cs.vu.nl>, Andy Tanenbaum writes: > >> >>Just when everyone has stabilized on 1.5.10, here we go again. I am >>about to send 1.6.10 to the beta test group. If you want to join this > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Will that also be for AMiga-Minix ??? I bet not ... > -Heiko > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | MINIX User Group Holland UUCP: waltje@minixug.mugnet.org | | c/o Fred van Kempen, or: waltje%minixug@plains.nodak.edu | | Hoefbladhof 27 | | 2215 DV VOORHOUT "Love is - what you want it to be. | | The Netherlands Alannah Myles" | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+