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Don't know, would be interested to find out. FWIW: Minix 2 will still get you a fully functional Unixoid on a PC XT with 8086 processor and 640kB RAM. (It'll r
by david-given 11y ago
Don't know, would be interested to find out.
FWIW: Minix 2 will still get you a fully functional Unixoid on a PC XT with 8086 processor and 640kB RAM. (It'll run in less, but I assume you want to run some processes in addition to the shell.)
And Minix 3 is a complete ground up rewrite, substantially more sophisticated, with a ludicrously small footprint and NetBSD compatibility (I believe it comes with NetBSD Ports).
- rwmj 11y agoFor quite a while around 1991/1992 I had Minix 1.5 running on an NEC V30 [8086 clone], with a dumb terminal plugged into the serial port, and it (just about) allowed two people to do useful work. Certainly editing files with microemacs and compiling with the ACK compiler was possible.
- phicoh 11y agoMINIX3 is not a ground up rewrite. It started off with the MINIX2 sources. A lot has been added and changed. Mainly to provide complete fault isolation for device drivers. (Aside from adding missing functionality)