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- Subject: SunOS Minix 1.9 (beta release of 2.0) available
- Message-ID: <BzoGII.3Kv@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: paul@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Paul Ashton)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:20:42 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand
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- Version 1.90 of SunOS Minix (a beta release of SunOS Minix 2.0) is now
- available via anonymous ftp from csc.canterbury.ac.nz in the UNIX
- directory in the file smx_1_90.tar_z (you should rename your copy
- smx_1_90.tar.Z before decompressing).
-
- Note that SunOS Minix version numbers are independent of Minix version
- numbers - SunOS Minix 1.0 was based on Mac Minix 1.5.10.1; non-mac
- specific fixes from Mac Minix 1.5.10.7 have been incorporated into
- SunOS Minix version 1.9.
-
- New features included in SunOS Minix 1.9 are:
-
- 1. Operates on Sun 3s as well as SPARC-based Suns (Sun 3 port by
- Bill Bynum (bynm@cs.wm.edu)).
-
- 2. Memory protection that operates at three levels: none (same as SunOS
- Minix 1.0), partial (text segments are not writable, free memory is
- totally inaccessible) and total (well, very nearly total). Partial
- protection is the default - full protection results in too much
- overhead for routine use.
-
- 3. Several minor bug fixes.
-
- We plan to release version 2.0 of SunOS Minix sometime in February,
- and welcome feedback on version 1.9 (to sunos-minix@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz).
- Version 1.9 is distributed in the same form as version 1.0 - as a set of
- diffs to Minix 1.5 for the PC or the Mac. When we release version 2.0 we
- may also provie an upgrade path from SunOS minix 1.0 (if there is any
- demand for it).
-
- --
- ----- Paul Ashton ----
- Email: paul@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
- NZ Post: Dept of Computer Science, University of Canterbury,
- Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
-