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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Minix for XT Laptop
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 19:12:20 GMT
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Matthew Lee (leem@shell01.ozemail.com.au) wrote:
: Hi All,

: I'm after a version of Minix to run on an XT Laptop (Toshiba 1200), I 
: have tried 1.7, but it has problems installing and I think it would be 
: very tight from what I've heard.

: Can someone please tell me where I can ftp a copy of Minix 1.5? The 
: laptop has 640kb ram and 20meg HDD, will this be OK? and will 1.6.25 run 
: on this? - I have to have 1.5 to run 1.6.25 anyway by the looks of it, 
: and I haven't been able to find 1.5 anywhere so far.

1.5 is commercial, $170 from Prentice Hall.  Avoid 1.6 for the PC,
it was never a very solid distribution; either 1.5 or 1.7 would
be better.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

