Beginner asking questions.

[Don Capps]

I am new to minix. I am interesting in knowing if a version
exists that has pageing and swapping ( For those PC`s with
an MMU) ?

Thanks ahead of time.
ca...@orion.convex.com

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In article <1991Oct21....@convex.com> ca...@convex.com (Don Capps) writes:
>
> I am new to minix. I am interesting in knowing if a version
> exists that has pageing and swapping ( For those PC`s with
> an MMU) ?
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
> ca...@orion.convex.com

Ok, it is obviously time for a small plug once more :-)

There is an experimental FREE minix-like thing which supports paging
(not yet to disk, but using the MMU to share pages after a fork etc
etc), written only for 386 AT's. It currently isn't very practical,
even though a number of people have a running system. It is a bit
faster than minix (except the floppy-disk driver which really sucks :-).

This is a kernel for hackers, so if you aren't one, you'd better wait
for a later release. If anybody wants to look at the sources, there is
a version available from 'nic.funet.fi' by anonymous FTP. There are
also some binaries for the kernel there (gcc, tar, make, uemacs and
fileutils). All this can be found in /pub/OS/Linux. This version
currently needs minix-386 to compile (but in a week I'll have a bootable
version there, I think).

Anybody interested can finger me, or mail me for info, or just ftp some
of the text-files from nic. Word of warning: it needs 4MB to be usable.

Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

[R. J. Kirkbridge]

In article <1991Oct21....@convex.com> ca...@convex.com (Don Capps) writes:
>

> I am new to minix. I am interesting in knowing if a version
> exists that has pageing and swapping ( For those PC`s with
> an MMU) ?
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
> ca...@orion.convex.com
>
>
>

I am a final year student and I believe that someone is undertaking to
do a project based on the above. Whether, this has already been done I
dont know

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