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
On Saturday 17 September 2005 18:40, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Anyone know if there indeed was a Minix system for the QL and what
happened to it?
There was definitely a Minix for the QL. I seem to remember buying a copy from
somewhere in East Anglia. I think (it was a very long time ago and I gave
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
I was just looking in some older Quantas and read the article on Minix for
the QL. Basically, you take the Atari ST source code (available from
Prentice-Hall), and add some changes done by Felix Croes (which he would
send you). I don't know of someone made a distribution of the differences
