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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
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Path: cs.vu.nl!ast
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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Free MINIX now available for beta testing
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Nntp-Posting-Host: fluit.cs.vu.nl
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Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:49:10 GMT
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Message-ID: <D9IHty.J00.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>
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Summary: MINIX by FTP !
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Prentice-Hall and I have decided to change our policy concerning MINIX.
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Starting shortly, MINIX 1.7.0 will be distributed free by FTP for
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educational and research use.
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The differences between Minix 1.6.25 and 1.7.0 for the PC are:
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- A 386 version
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- ANSI C compiler included
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- Loadable keymaps (for national keyboards)
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- Online manual pages (many new ones, but not complete)
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- Numerous little fixes
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- TCP/IP drivers and utilities (not as complete as one may hope)
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- Interrupt code restructured (readable, configurable)
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- Rebooting commands and kernel support (allows safe shutdown)
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- Booting from hard disk is now normal, booting from floppy the exception
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- Restructured device drivers:
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+ Support for up to four subpartitions in a Minix primary disk partition
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+ Support for up to four logical partitions per DOS extended partition
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+ Floppy partitions
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+ AT disk driver knows about IDE and should support EIDE
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+ Adaptec 1542A disk and tape driver (SCSI)
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A beta test version is now available for FTPing on ftp.cs.vu.nl in directory
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pub/minix/beta. See the README file there for further instructions. We would
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like people who want to be beta testers to fetch MINIX and test it. Please
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report bugs to Kees Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl). Kees has done a huge amount of work
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preparing 1.7.0. He and Philip Homburg have also produced a 32-bit virtual
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memory MINIX, which will be released to the net by FTP as soon as "classic"
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MINIX has been released and is stable.
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Manual page references you should read first: usage(8), boot(8), hier(7).
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Manual pages that document some of the differences with 1.6.25:
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boot(8), loadkeys(8), ip(4), hd(4), sd(4), fd(4), shutdown(8), usage(8).
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In addition, the MINIX book is being rewritten by myself and my co-author,
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Al Woodhull. It will probably include all of MINIX on a CD-ROM in the
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back of the book. We are hoping to finish it by Spring of 1996.
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I will be away at ICDCS-15 and various universities from 28 May until
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11 June. I may read mail and news sporadically during that time, so it is
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better to send bug reports to Kees or post them to the newsgroup.
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Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
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