[comp.os.minix] MINIX for the ST? IT'S ARRIVED!

jangr@microsoft.UUCP (Jan Gray) (10/08/88)

In article <18301@apple.Apple.COM> billd@Apple.COM (William Dorsey) writes:
>>or second week in October".  The order number is 013584391.
>Does anyone know the definitive method of ordering ST Minix?  Assuming the
>above order number is correct, how about a telephone number to call at
>Prentice Hall?  Also, do I need anything other than the Minix book, and the
>ST software release?

Sorry about that.  The PH telephone order number is (201) 767-5937.  Use the
order number above.  ST Minix is $79.95 plus delivery and taxes.

I received ST Minix via UPS this morning!

Jan Gray   uunet!microsoft!jangr   Microsoft Corp., Redmond Wash.   206-882-8080

n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) (10/11/88)

>I received ST Minix via UPS this morning!
>
>Jan Gray   uunet!microsoft!jangr   Microsoft Corp., Redmond Wash.   206-882-8080

Can you or anybody else who has ST Minix give info about it:
1.	Which version number.
2.	Which programs are supplied ( is there networking software ?).

Thanks in advance.


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hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (10/18/88)

In article <545@nikhefh.hep.nl> n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes:
>Can you or anybody else who has ST Minix give info about it:
>1.	Which version number.
>2.	Which programs are supplied ( is there networking software ?).

The package is being called ST Minix 1.1. It includes various commands and
features corresponding to PC Minix 1.2. There is no networking software in
the pre-release I have. (There isn't even an rs232 driver. Ah, these
wonderful "exercises left for the reader...") One of my goals in working
with this system will be to bring it to a level corresponding to version 1.3
on the PC. It comes with compress and tar, which is pretty nice. I'm not
sure I want to try to port ARC to it, since I like tar better anyway.

Using register variables in the compilation, it clocks in at about 526
dhrystones/second. Anyone got ratings for other systems I could compare
with?
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