ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (04/19/91)
I have written an 8088 interpreter in C that runs on SPARCs and probably other machines. It also simulates enough I/O gear of the IBM PC that you can run MINIX 1.1 on the simulator. The simulator is not perfect, but still may be of some interest. It will not run MS-DOS because MS-DOS needs a BIOS, and the BIOS is copyrighted, so it is not included in the simulator. If you provide your own BIOS, it might work. This has never been tried. The simulator is available only by FTP. It is on ftp.cs.vu.nl (192.31.231.42) in directory minix/simulator. There is also other minix stuff in minix/* as well as amoeba stuff in amoeba/* (Amoeba is a distributed operating system). All the directories have READ_ME files explaining what's in them. Everything in all the directories is copyright. Permission is hereby granted to upload and use the files for educational and research use only. Other use requires written permission from the copyright owner. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)