hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (09/11/90)
Archive-name: atari.archive.umich.edu/10-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Original-subject: Re: New MINIX available (UNIX clone with full source code) Archive-directory: /pub/atari/Minix Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <7485@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: [ Lots of stuff. Wow. ] >3.3 ADDITIONAL MINIX 1.5 FEATURES (ATARI ST VERSION) > - Up to 2 simultaneous users on one machine > - RS-232 serial line support with terminal emulation, kermit, zmodem, etc. > - Support for various real time clocks (Mega, BMS, ICD, Supra, Weide) Coming soon to a usenet site near you - support for arbitrary disk formats, including high density 3.5" disks... If you've got the right hardware, it will also support 1.2 meg 5.25" disks. (Requires some grungy hardware hacking, of course. Oh well.) >For email and FAX orders, please include the product name and number, your >name and address, and your MasterCard or VISA card number and expiration date. >If you wish delivery by Federal Express (costs extra), please indicate so. Um... I'd think twice about sending a credit card number over the internet... Wouldn't you? Just a cautionary note... >13. WHERE CAN I GET PAST POSTINGS AND PROGRAMS? > Many sites keep archives of MINIX-related material, ranging from >archives of articles posted to more organized repositories of programs posted >to the net. The complete MINIX distribution is NOT (repeat NOT) available >from any online archive. This is not permitted. Only the newsgroup traffic is >stored there. >Formal Archives (MINIX sources): > terminator.cc.umich.edu Please refer to "atari.archive.umich.edu" instead. Thanks. (141.211.164.8) Also note that new Minix stuff isn't collected here automatically, it shows up when I get time to test things and put them back up. The things of primary interest here are the GNU tools, which are copied from dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu, and the ST 1.1 -> 1.5.10 upgrade kit. >terminator.cc.umich.edu [35.1.33.8] directory pub/atari/MINIX and > pub/gnustuff Again - atari.archive.umich.edu, and the directories are pub/atari/Minix and pub/atari/gnustuff/minix. (pub/atari/gnustuff/tos contains other GNU tools for TOS.) > ST upgrade kits, ST programs (GNU tools) > This site may have a mail server. Yes, send message with text "help" to atari@atari.archive.umich.edu. There is a limit of 200K per day per user. -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip if one of those data bits happens to flip, one million data bits stored on the chip...