cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid) (06/29/90)
I got mailed the following question, I think the answer may be of interest to others. > Need a brief answer from you. I have a 386 PC clone, running DOS, wanna > switch to Minix World. Can I do this from scratch given what's available > on 129.127.40.3? The answer to that is a simple *No*. MINIX is copyright PH so I can't have the entire MINIX sources, ftp'able on ftp.adelaide, just like no one else can. What is made available is patches against the PH versions of minix. (*) So once you've purchased the IBM version (which runs on a 386 in 16 bit mode) from PH you can apply patches and get the 32 bit 386 version. > If yes, can build everything using MicroSoft C and Assembler? > If no, what would I have to do? Pointers to relevant info. would be good. > Thank you very much. MINIX comes with a C compiler which tends to be SLOW on a 8086 PC. But on a 386 it's usable. There's a monthly posting that gives more information. Andrew Cagney PH = Prentice Hall Publishing. * They really are patches, if there is an old version of the file *any*where* then I used it to produce a diff.