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In 1987, MINIX 1.0 came out as an operating system to demonstrate that you could run something approaching UNIX on a 4.77 MhZ PC with 256 KB RAM, one 360 KB floppy disk, and no hard disk. Since then it has grown into a full-fledged 32-bit operating system, although a 16-bit version can still be compiled and run on 8088s and 286s. All the changes in MINIX itself have necessitated a major rewrite of that part of the book discussing MINIX. 2011/5/10 Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]>: > 2011/5/9 mattschinkel <[email protected]> >> >> Although Minix is a light weight file system, it was never ment for >> PIC :) > > Actually I'm wondering what kind of machines w/ specs there were at the time > it's been created (1987 according to Wikipedia) vs. 128K program memory + > 3.6K RAM as I have today. Obviously more, but, was it really *much* more ? > Maybe a "white beard" can expose their nostalgic memories here :) > Cheers > Seb > >> >> Matt. >> >> On May 9, 11:58 am, [email protected] wrote: >> > Revision: 2644 >> > Author: sebastien.lelong >> > Date: Mon May 9 08:57:38 2011 >> > Log: support fragmented files for direct zone only (max 7K... :)), >> > >> > fixed zone alloc when appending to >> > EOFhttp://code.google.com/p/jallib/source/detail?r=2644 >> > >> > Modified: >> > /trunk/include/filesystem/minixfs.jal >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
