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- MiNT is a multitasking enhancement to TOS; it replaces some TOS calls and
- adds new ones to enhance TOS. Note that it's not 100% TOS compatible,
- but most well-behaved programs (and many not so well behaved programs)
- run under it as well. It should work on any ST or TT, but I recommend having
- at least a megabyte of memory (on a 520ST there's not enough memory left
- to run large programs, especially more than one at a time!).
-
- The MiNT kernel is not terribly useful by itself (it does enhance TOS a bit
- with some new CTRL-ALT-key sequences), so some sample utilities are also
- provided, to do things like launching a program in the background, running
- two programs connected by a pipe, and running a background program on a
- separate screen. The MGR window manager has been ported to run under MiNT,
- and provides a nice graphical environment for people with 2 megabytes of
- memory. There are also command shells providing Unix like multitasking and
- pipe features; a small one (init.prg) is included with the MiNT kernel,
- and a larger one (the GNU bash shell) is provided separately.
-
- MiNT will be of particular interest to programmers, so the source code for
- the kernel and all utilities is provided, as is a customized version of the
- GCC library which is MiNT aware.
-
- Questions and comments about MiNT should be directed to me (Eric Smith)
- at ersmith@netcom.com, or posted to comp.sys.atari.st.
-