Minix

[woodelf]

Bert Thomas wrote:

>>
>>
>> Seconded. I bought the first edition of the book (red cover) and a 
>> Minix 1.5.10 (I think) on 360K floppies distribution) about 15 years 
>> ago, and the second edition (with the CD-ROM) somewhat later. I am 
>> not really a programmer, but I learnt a lot about operating systems 
>> from that book, and from fiddling with the code.
>> It's one of those books, like TAoE, that I would seriously recomend 
>> everyone here should read. Sure it doesn't cover everything, and you 
>> may not agree with all the methods in it, but at least you'll learn 
>> enough to understand other books on the subject.
>
>
> I'm not sure if it's out yet, but very soon the 3rd edition will be 
> available, so if you consider buying the book make sure you buy the 
> 3rd edition. As lots has changed to minix I assume that the new book 
> will reflect those changes.
>
That is exactly why I did not buy the 3 ed.  Minux has been re-wrtten 
from a 8088 to a 386+
in the 3rd ed. 8 meg of ram min is needed, 16  recomended. I was buying 
the book for ideas for a small
computer I building. ( hardware real soon ... ) that I have to write 
since I have a unque instruction
set and  word length.  This version of the computer will have 64kb of  
memory of 12k to 16kb I want
to save for the OS.

> Bert