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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: OS source?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:31:57 GMT
- Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
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- In article <sourada.727507778@vincent2.iastate.edu> sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada) writes:
- >This is kind of a long shot, but I'll ask anyway: Is there any
- >freely available, 68k assembly language source for (at least parts
- >of) an operating system? It doesn't have to be complete or compilable
- >on my computer, I just want to browse it.
- >
- >I've gotten a little help from the source to MiNT, a multitasking
- >OS extension for the Atari ST. I began to get a copy of KludgeMach for
- >the Amiga to see if there was anything interesting in that, but I stopped
- >when I found that the compressed source was >3MB!
-
- You can get a complete Unix clone (Minix-68k) for around $100 from
- Prentice-Hall. All source code is included for the kernel, all commands,
- utilities, etc... (Um, mebbe the compiler source is not included; I don't
- remember what happened there. At any rate, since you just ask for
- "an operating system" I'd assume you only want the kernel sources.) You
- can find a lot of info in the comp.os.minix newsgroup. Minix-68k runs on
- Atari ST, Amiga, and Mac. (I know it runs on all models of Atari; I don't
- know what hardware dependencies it has for Amiga or Mac...)
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- There's a rough border between genius and insanity, but I'm a dual citizen.
-