Pretty good week

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Sun Mar 1 08:32:31 1998

On 27 Feb 98 at 20:49, John Rollins wrote:

> >Here, take my 10 year old copy of Minix. BTW, is anybody up to speed on
> >the current state of Minix? I have an itch to run *ix on a 128K 8086 box,
> >and it doesn't look like ELKS is ready for prime time.
> Well, I'm definitley not a Minix junkie, I haven't even had time to get
> around to putting it on one of my 8088's, but I think the current version
> is 2.0, which I think will run on an 8086/88 if you have enough disk space
> and a way to get all that stuff onto the drive. You would probably want a
> 286 to do anything with 2.0. For some strange reason, I downloaded Minix
> 1.1 to install(probably because it will fit on a bunch of 360k disks, but
> 1.1 doesn't do much, everyone told me to use 1.5). Try checking out the
> comp.os.minix newsgroup.
> BTW, is yowza_at_yowza.com a real address? Sounds funny to me...
>
 Toronto Atari Federation used Minix as one of the elements in
 a package that enabled ST users to access the i-net. Requires about
4 megs tho. It's since been superceded by easier programs.

ciao larry
lwalkerN0spaM_at_interlog.com
Received on Sun Mar 01 1998 - 08:32:31 GMT