djd@cs.columbia.edu (Daniel Duchamp) (02/18/90)
In article <11434@nigel.udel.EDU> ast@cs.vu.nl writes: > >I believe it runs on PS/2s. Ask Dan Duchamp at columbia. I think his >address is duchamp@cs.columbia.edu AAAAHHHHH! Don't do that! I already get 50-60 mail messages per day. Here at Columbia we have version 1.4.2 running (in real mode only) on models 70 and 80. By the end of this week, I hope we will have 1.5.0 working on the 80, which is the development machine for my (Minix) group. A while back, Steve Ackerman of Vermont gave to us version 1.3 that he runs on what I believe is the model 50. So the brief answer is that it seems Minix runs pretty well on the PS/2. We plan to shadow ast's updates to 1.5 as well as we can. We also have semi-serious ambitions to do neat things like an ESDI driver and networking, but -- even if we do succeed -- you won't see these things before Fall. As things progress, I will be in touch with ast about distributing the PS/2 version.
umbaugh@evax.arl.utexas.edu (David Umbaugh) (02/20/90)
From: Daniel Duchamp <djd%CS.COLUMBIA.EDU@VM1.NoDak.EDU>
[quoted in part below]
Here at Columbia we have version 1.4.2 running (in real mode only) on
models 70 and 80. By the end of this week, I hope we will have 1.5.0
working on the 80,
. . .
So the brief answer
is that it seems Minix runs pretty well on the PS/2.
[which might lead the uncritical reader to conclude that Minix out of
the box will boot and load the root file system, etc. on a PS/2.]
As things progress, I will be in touch with ast about
distributing the PS/2 version.
[but this indicates that the truth is obviously otherwise. Caveate
Emptor. At least there is a light at the end of the tunnel and all
the PS/2 users will owe a vote of thanks to those who made it all
work.]
L. David (Dave) Umbaugh, Computer Science Engineering, University of
Texas at Arlingon, PO Box 19015 Arlington, TX 76012, (817) 273-3628
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