On 6 Apr 98 at 0:44, Nick Amato wrote:
>
>
> With this talk about finding a quasi-useful OS to run on
> older machines (a small linux) I might suggest that you
> take a look at Minix:
>
> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
>
> A project from the venerable Andrew Tanenbaum, whose books
> most of us are familiar with.
>
> 1.5 was ported to many platforms (Atari, Macintosh, some others)
> and 2.0 runs on an 8088 to a Pentium. It's rather neat.
>
>
> Nick
>
The Atari port was used for the first Atari attempt at a browser and proved
very difficult to install for most. I think it was also tried for multitasking
on the ST I'll have to take a look at it.
ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Sun Apr 05 1998 - 01:09:58 BST