dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich) (10/07/87)
I am a hardware design engineer who is VERY interested in the MINIX operating system as a self-improvement tool. I have just finished a "home brewed" 68000 single board computer and I'm hoping to use it as a foundation for learning more about operating systems. I have purchased the MINIX textbook along with the source and binaries. My intentions were to port MINIX over to my 68000 based board as part of a self taught operating systems course. After hearing about the MINIX port to the ATARI-ST, I now believe that MINIX-ST would be a much better base for this type of a project. I have tried to contact the people doing the MINIX-ST port, but they have not responded. Ideally, I would like to get a copy of the MINIX-ST when it is at a stable point. This would save me the trouble of dealing with the general C portability problems that have been encountered so far - after all, my goal is to learn more about operating systems, not C portability problems. I'm not too thrilled about purchasing another copy of the MINIX source when the ST version becomes available. The MINIX compiler is not absolutely necessary for me since I have a cross compiler. Does anybody have any advice on how I might solve this dilemma? Any comments Andy ?? Any help that anyone could offer me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dan Dietrich ...ihnp4!tellab5!tellab2!dpd
johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson) (10/08/87)
In article <714@tellab5.UUCP> dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich) writes: >I have tried to contact the people doing >the MINIX-ST port, but they have not responded. That must be me. Sorry, I probably missed it. >Ideally, I would like to get a copy of the MINIX-ST when it is at a stable >point. Currently this stable point has not been reached. A beta version is sent to a limited number of people, but it will take some more time for a first release. >I'm not too thrilled about purchasing another copy of the MINIX source >when the ST version becomes available. Good point, but I cannot give you answers. Johan W. Stevenson, Philips Research Laboratories, Project Centre Geldrop, Building XR, Room 15, Willem Alexanderlaan 7B, 5664 AN Geldrop, The Netherlands. phone: +31 40 892205 uucp: mcvax!nlgvax!johan