Minix

gordonjcp at gjcp.net gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Thu Nov 17 03:16:21 CST 2005


> 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.

Yes indeed

> 8MB and a 386 is not a small machine!

8MB and the equivalent of a 386 is getting to be pretty close to a single
chip these days.

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

I quite fancy porting Minix to the PDP-11, but I'm sure it's been done
before.

Gordon.



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