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- From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: minix (was Re: Any caveats?)
- Message-ID: <2920@targon.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:25:11 GMT
- References: <C0vBwE.CAB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1jga18INNioi@nanette.sto.pdb.sni.de> <H.ea.RhyJqajwMls@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
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- In article <H.ea.RhyJqajwMls@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca writes:
- >In <1jga18INNioi@nanette.sto.pdb.sni.de>, Dr.Savory writes:
- >> Put MINIX on your ST. Then you can play at UNIX (aka LINUX) without
- >> having to buy an intel chip.
- >
- >Is the ST version of Minix limited the same way the PC version is? It's
- >stuck with a max size of 64k for executables (bleh!)...
- >
- No, this restriction applies only to the original Intel (PC) version of Minix.
- The author (A.Tanenbaum) insists on keeping Minix compatible to those poor
- 8086 PC's (which may be right because that version of Minix was sold the most).
- On the 68000 version of Minix your physical memory is the limit :-)
-
- >Minix is a cool thing... You get a unix-like OS (pretty damn close!)
- >with full source code and whatnot, for about $100 (if memory serves).
- >
- I think the current (1.5) version is $170. It has grown a lot though.
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