steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (11/12/90)
I have a rather different intent for minix than anyone I've read from so far. What I'd like to do, assuming I can get the source in the format I need, is hack up a version for an imbedded 68K system that I'll be building. This is a just for fun project, so price is very much an object. The Book mentions a simulator that allows a "VAX or other minicomputer running Unix" to run PC minix. Anyway what I want to know is: Is such a simulator available for a 68K version of minix? and/or Is the 68K minix C compiler portable enough so that I can compile it under 386 Unix and expect it to generate decent ROMable code. For those of you who are bound to ask. No, I don't expect this to be easy. And No, I don't intend to run the entirety of minix. I'll not be using the file system unless I have enough RAM in my system to use a RAM disk, because I don't intend to have either floppies or a hard disk. If you have any ideas as to whether I can get such a combination of elements or some of them, so that I can at least get the source code and a working cross compiler (the simulator would be gravy) on 1.2 Meg floppies in "tar" or MS-DOS format or via anonymous uucp (not ftp) I'd be eternally grateful and have a lot of fun. If you have answers, questions, comments, or whatever, contact me via e-mail. Thanks in advance. -- SMY -- Stephen M. Youndt / "Remember, no matter where you go, uunet!hacker!steve / there you are." -- B. Banzai