Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!nikhefk!werner
From: werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix port to Apricot PC
Keywords: port, apricot
Message-ID: <422@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 15:35:18 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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A friend of mine is working on a port of MINIX to an Apricot PC. He
asked me to try and find out if some part of the work might have been
done already by somebody else somewhere in the world.

The Apricot PC is a non IBM-compatibel 8086-oriented machine. Its hardware
has some similarities with the IBM PC. For example the clock chip is the
same, so is the CRT controller. But the serial interface uses a Z80-SIO
and the floppy disk controller is build around a WD2797. DMA is performed
by a 8089 DMA processor. For these reasons the port is partly done by simply
changing some of the IO-adresses, display memory, etc.  The other part
involves rewritting the device dependant parts of the floppy disk task and
the tty task.

His question is: - Is somebody else working on an port to the Apricot PC?
                 - Has somebody rewritten the floppy disk task to work
                   with a WD279X for any other machine?

Thanks in advance,

Henk Schouten (Haagse Hogeschool).


Werner Vogels (werner@nikhefk).