Dilwyn Jones wrote:
While reading some material about Linus Torvalds and his exploits with a
QL in Finland in 1984-85, I came across a 1992 posting by Dave Woodman
(who ported various language and parsing utiltiies for the QL) to a
reference to a QL Minix. Dave seems to have been in conversation with
Linus Torvalds and wrote:
Well (and Linus you might not want to hear this given your recent
efforts), there is Minix available for QDOS.
And Linus replied:
Oh yes, I'm definitely interested...does QL-minix use QDOS for
multitaskign too?
Anyone know if there indeed was a Minix system for the QL and what
happened to it?
From my searches:
http://p.m.nu/sinclair/intl_ql_part3/intl_ql3_8.html#14209
Message 14209 1995-07-20 14:17 18 lines by Richard Zidlicky
Area: INTL.QL
Subject: QL-MINIX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I received a bunch of sources for qlminix 1.5 from Felix Croes,
...
http://p.m.nu/sinclair/intl_ql_part1/intl_ql1_12.html#2520
Message 2520 1992-01-10 14:52 26 lines by Dave Walker
Area: INTL.QL
Comment to message by Thilo Oldiges % MAUS BI
Subject: MINIX
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What I have done is make amendments to the Atari ST Release 1.5 issue to
produce a MINIX Kernel that runs as a job under QDOS. This means that you
can run MINIX on a QL - a minimum of 640Kb and 2 disk drives is required.
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Anyone else want to take the ball from here?
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