war@uunet.uu.net (Andy Richter) (05/03/88)
"Making MINIX work on the HP Vectra involves two changes: 1) HP has their own keyboard/mouse/kitchen-sink interface which can simulate a real PC keyboard. Unfortunately, the simulation is in software and uses interrupts (#60 or #61, I think) which MINIX wipes out. I just commented out the code that sets all the non-minix interrupts to PANIC. 2) The keyboard simulator also used some system RAM. So I changed the little program that decides how much memory is present to think that there was 64K less than it really had (4K was not enough)." This message is quoted since it was sent to me by one of our graduate students, Joe Frisbee, who actually did the work. Andy Richter Systems Analyst, School of Engineering Vanderbilt University war@vuse.vanderbilt.edu