Amiga-Xinu kickstart sought

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2 total messages Started by John Dormer Wed, 16 Jan 1991 23:08

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Author: John Dormer
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 23:08

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  Some of you may have already seen this request in other com.sys.amiga.*
newsgroups. Hit your skip key now.
  For those who are wondering just what I'm talking about, I'm trying to find
an Amiga kickstart disk which supposedly exsisted a couple years ago. This
kickstart would boot your Amiga into the teaching OS known as XINU...Xinu Is
Not Unix. This OS was written by Douglas Comer of Purdue University around 
1984, and is attractive because that while it is not a complete OS in and of 
itself, it could be extended to be one, and is free of the trappings of modern 
AT&Tisms...you don't need $50k to get it. You don't even need the $100+ which 
Minix costs (and I hear it won't run on the 3000 anyway). You just need a 
little curiosity and work.
  If anyone has any info on this, please email me. There are a fair number of
people who are interested in this, and we'd all appreciate your help!

	John Dormer
	dormer@medusa.cs.purdue.edu

Re: Amiga-Xinu kickstart sought

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Author: Jim Shaffer
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 15:25

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Assuming that this still exists anywhere, would there be any way to get it
running on an Amiga 500?  (Short of burning PROMs, that is.  Heck, maybe
someone could burn PROMs anyway!)

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