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I'm crossposting this to comp.os.minix for fairly obvious reasons.  This
discussion started earlier this week when I asked if anyone was aware of
a DEC Rainbow version of Minix. 

In article <Added.4X8Lfny00Ui306bk8E@andrew.cmu.edu>, GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) writes:
>     I'm not aware of any ports of Minix to the Rainbow world, but
> there was one made to the IBM PC family.

Yes, I think that was the first machine it ran on.  I have Tannenbaum's
book describing Minix, and we have a copy at MKS, but I don't think it's
ever been booted here. 

> Given you've already written the i/o routines when porting
> QNX, how difficult would it be to use these with Minix?

I don't know enough yet about Minix's innards to say, although Minix and
QNX seem to have a LOT in common (both are message passing systems). 
The other problem is that I no longer work where I did the QNX port, so
I dunno if I can still acess my old code.  I dunno if they even have it!

Would there be enough interest in a Rainbow version of Minix within the
net community to kick it around a little? All those interested, send
email.  I'll summarise in a week or so.  (Gee, I hope my mailbox can
withstand the impending flood of messages.  :-) If you have something to
offer to such an effort (hardware or software expertise, Rainbow
internal information, etc.) let me know.
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