Re: Just my 2 penny worth..

[Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn@tu-bs.de>]

At 10:44 Uhr +0200 24.06.1998, Stephen Usher wrote:


>> >This would only work, of course, on a 68020 + PMMU and above.
>>
>>I don't mind. I think a CPU with PMMU should now be a minimum.
>
>I, myself think we should be as inclusive as possible.. let us differ, ok?

IMO MiNT should go on supporting 68000. If i had an TT I would run Linux now.

>Maybe.. but there are probably a whole lot of people out there still running
>them as they were "what they got with their machine."

When I bought my second hard disc 3 years ago, everyone told me I need an
XHDI compatible driver to use minixfs with 1k sectors and big partitions. I
immediately bought HHDriver and never had problems.

>You've obviously not seen the group who have got a version of Linux running
>on a US Robotics/3Com Palm Pilot! That has a processor which is basically a
>68000 core with a few peripherals built in.. All they've had to do it
>rewrite the memory management. Like MiNT, I believe, it currently has a
>blocking fork etc.. but it proves what CAN be done even on a plain 68000!

And I bet it is not 100% binary compatible. Unless they have the FPU
Emulator the Linux/m68k people are working on (since years).

Axel,
who has still an old ST1040, an ICD SCSI Adapter and a 50M hard disc lying
around somewhere.

Axel Kielhorn
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