Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!mmdf From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Minix on the 386 Message-ID: <21781@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 89 21:39:58 GMT Lines: 21 I've finally taken the plunge and ordered a 386 system, with 4 MB of memory and an 80 MB hard disk, for the avowed purpose of using it as a development machine for Minix. Although I teach this stuff, I don't have any particular expectations of coming up with anything which is anywhere near worthy of distribution. On the other hand, though, several people have independently expressed similar ideas at one time or another, so I wonder if there is any way in which we might exchange ideas? I'd be glad to either (a) contribute anything I come up with to a coordinating person, or (b) serve as a central point to distribute anything someone else might come up with. Of course, what is going to happen is that long before I get anything working the way I want it, someone like Bruce Evans will release Minix386 which will be so slick that I can only be awed by it. But hopefully the experience will be worthwhile..... John Nall Computer Science Department Florida State University (jnall@rai.fsu.edu Bitnet) (nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu Internet)