Michael_Dennis_Evenson@cup.portal.com (10/23/89)
Open leter to Dr. Andrew S. Tannenbaum, As you are probably aware, Gary Mills has ported MINIX to another Motorola 68000 based system other than the ATARI. It's called the PT68K-2 manufactured by a company in Georgia (USA) called Peripheral Technology. It's the kit that Radio Electronics ran a series of construction articles on a couple of years ago. Gary did the floppy driver and mods necessary for the PT68K and made the diffs available through a magazine called 68 Micro Journal. Sydney Thompson (president of SK*DOS USERS' GROUP) got the disks from 68 MICRO JOURNAL and applied the pathes to the ATARI version. I already legally own both the IBM PC/XT/AT and ATARI versions from Prentice Hall, so Sydney sent me the diskettes with the diffs already applied to save me the trouble of doing it. What this all boils down to is: 1. Gary did the original port. 2. Sydney sent me a bootable set of diskettes. 3. I did the winchester driver 4. Jack Crenshaw is working on the printer and serial drivers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!! WE HAVE NO WAY TO SHARE THIS WITH THE WORLD. !!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In order for someone with just a PT68K-2 and the Atari version of MINIX, the minimum requirement for getting it operational is: 1. A bootable PT68K diskette 2. A root diskette 3. A /usr diskette. Since it's pretty useless with out the full set of ATARI diskettes, do you think P-H would mind if we made this minimum requirement available on a BBS. (i.e. just the BOOT - ROOT - /USR diskettes). Anyone who wanted to make use of MINIX would still have to get the ATARI diskettes from P-H. Mike Evenson