meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) (07/26/89)
Hi! Thanks for all the support for the Minix ST 1.2 version. I've received enough applications for beta testers. Beta testers: I'll send you a message somewhere around the weekend. I also got a mail from Johan Stevenson to say that it was ok for me to post the stuff. However I should warn the net that this is a semi official release (which perhaps will never be available from PH), and that he reserves all rights to deviate from my postings for the official release (if and when it is created). I have not spent much time lately on 1.2 due to unexpected but happy family circumstances. Also I'm having problems with my hard disk. (Anyone experience with a Micropolis 1355 or an Adaptec 4520 or both, in combination with an ST?). As soon as the hard disk problems are solved I can work on 1.2. I've received a suggestion from Glen Overby on how to distribute the stuff. I have decided to use a similar distribution scheme as he proposes, but with slight modifications. The whole stuff will be split into a number of parts: - complete files not ST specific - complete files ST specific - diffs to get to ST 1.2 I intend to make such a separation for each component (fs, kernel, mm, lib, commands, sttools, tests) I'm not sure whether I should post the files which are equivalent to the PC 1.3 version. What does the net think? I will get make the stuff as close to 1.3 as possible, together with some ST specific kernel stuff. After 1.3, I'll get to 1.4a (or b?) as soon as possible. There are a few bug fixes (e.g. in FS) which are needed to get the serial driver running. I've not decided whether they will be in the 1.4a or the 1.3 version. I am inclined to the first, in order to get as compatible as possible, but I'm open to your suggestions. Regards, Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology ( or try: ...!mcvax!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr)
dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher) (07/29/89)
> I'm not sure whether I should post the files which are equivalent to the > PC 1.3 version. What does the net think? > > I will get make the stuff as close to 1.3 as possible, together with some > ST specific kernel stuff. > > After 1.3, I'll get to 1.4a (or b?) as soon as possible. > > There are a few bug fixes (e.g. in FS) which are needed to get the > serial driver running. I've not decided whether they will be in the 1.4a > or the 1.3 version. I am inclined to the first, in order to get as > compatible as possible, but I'm open to your suggestions. I regard inclusion of a working TTY driver (working both for dial-out and dial-in) to be of highest importance. If this means we need 1.4a rather than 1.3, so be it! Also critical is the inclusion of the Supra HD fix to stwini.c. This mod doesn't interfere with the operation of any other drive, and is required for some drives (even some non-Supra drives) to work at all. Whatever is done should be done soon since I feel rather stuck right now in developing further kernel mods when I'm not sure what the next official baseline will be. As a matter of interest, in order to support work on a port of the X window system, I'm designing a compatibility library which implements Internet Domain Sockets (stream mode only). This will require a new task (at the level of FS and MM) tenatively called IPC which provides the actual transport mechanism to build the Socket emulation on. This is planned to be a simple message passing IPC mechanism. As I said before, however, much of this work is going to be held up until I know what the next baseline OS will look like, so for now I'm working on the standard libraries (cf: comp.lang.c). > Regards, > > Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl) > Centre for Software Technology > ( or try: ...!mcvax!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr) \\ / Dale Schumacher 399 Beacon Ave. \\ / (alias: Dalnefre') St. Paul, MN 55104-3527 >< ...umn-cs!midgard.mn.org!syntel!dal United States of America / \\ "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, / \\ which is the exact opposite." -Bertrand Russell