Minix

[Tony Duell]

> 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 

BLETCH!!!

That means it wouldn't run on this PC (too little RAM), for all I am 
running an old version of linux with no problems.

The reason I bought Minix in the beginning was that it would run on my 
PC/XT machine (the only PC I had at the time). And I learnt a fair bit 
about OSes and enough C to be dangerous by playing about with it.

8MB and a 386 is not a small machine!

> 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.

Feel like porting Unix V6 (as in the Lions Book)?

-tony