Subj : Re: hello! :DD To : poindexter FORTRAN From : tenser Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 07:31 am On 17 Apr 2024 at 07:16a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said... pF> -=> niter3 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=- pF> pF> pF> I put MINIX on it, installed an SMTP server, POP3 server and a web pF> pF> server and create a mini-presence on our company LAN. I forwarded mai pF> pF> to it, used it as a DNS forwarder, and created some web pages to shar pF> pF> information inside the company. pF> pF> ni> I'm not up to speed with minix, but is that a currently active OS? pF> ni> Meaning, is it getting constant patches? pF> pF> MINIX is a "teaching" OS, not really meant for production. Andy pF> Tanenbaum designed it for an OS class years ago. I wouldn't want to run pF> it on the internet, though. pF> pF> It runs on an old emulator called bochs, but also runs natively and pF> with modern hypervisors. It ran (sort of) on 8088s, but was intended for pF> a 286 with a little more memory to play with, and later versions pF> supported 386's memory model and included an X server. pF> pF> What's great about it is that the source code is available and it's pF> designed to be walked through and understood as part of the class. You're mixing versions a bit here. Minix 1 was certainly a teaching OS, and ran on the 8088 (it was designed to run from a floppy on a student's PC). Minix 1.5 and Minix 2 were ported more widely. The former ran on a bunch of obscure machines that are just memories now, but 2 ran on x86 and SPARC. Minix 3 runs on x86 and ARM, and as mentioned, is the embedded OS for the Intel management engine, which is in pretty much every x86 processor post 2015. Minix 3 is very much a production system, as well as serving its original teaching goal. At various times, it's been used in a variety of research projects. I kind of doubt Andy will do another version, but perhaps someone else will take it up. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64) * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101) .