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Subject: Re: MINIX 2.0 for Macintosh
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In article <36E44E2A.29CB934B@usa.net>,
Tommy Braas  <tommy.braas@usa.net> wrote:
>
>Is anyone currently involved in porting MINIX 2.0 for PowerMacintosh?
>
So far as I know, no.  Work is underway to make the current MacMinix 32-bit
clean and thus able to run on a powermac.

If I had free time (what's that?), I'd seriously think about porting Minix
2.0 to the mac myself.  Unfortuneately, I'm starting on my thesis work at
the momment and the title doesn't happen to be "Porting Minix 2.0 to the
Macintosh Computer Platform."  (Actually, I rather doubt that such a thesis
would be allowed.)

Porting is not, IN THEORY, an unbearable undertaking.  It consists mainly in
determining the changes between 1.5 and 2.0, and  applying them to the
current MacMinix base.  (Alternately, it would consist of determining the
differences between MacMinix and PC Minix, and applying them to 2.0).  In
practice, of course, things get a little more difficult and time-consuming,
what with debugging and all that.

>Cheers!
>
>Tommy Braas

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