Re: [MiNT] New MiNT distribution is n.. ..pro

["Fred Horvat" <fmh@netzero.net>]

    I have never used Mac Mint but how did this work?  Did it replace Mac OS
or work with/beside it?
----- Original Message -----
From: Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>
To: Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nvg.org>
Cc: MiNT List <mint@fishpool.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MiNT] New MiNT distribution is n.. ..pro


> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
>
> > But that's not what I want! I don't want to have a different OS in the
> > background, I want the PC to boot directly into a 68k-emulator and
> > boot MiNT on that.
> > There's no OS in the background, all hardware is controlled directly by
> > MiNT
>
> We have discussed this some time ago in our Czech Atari mailing list. I
> always convinced the other people that it's too much trouble to write a
> new operating system for a PC hardware.
>
> Just imagine - you would have to write something like DOS in the first
> place (so you could access the HDD and perhaps VGA). Then, you would have
> to write a Atari HW emulator (perhaps a STonX/Gemulator source could be
> re-used here). Say you would got it running somehow on VGA 640x480x16 plus
> PIO HDD. And now you would have to start writting tons of drivers for just
> about everything - PCI slots, tenths of video cards, sound cards, network
> cards plus various subtle differences on the motherboards, CPUs
> (AMD/Intel/Cyrix) etc etc. You would end up with basically Linux kernel, I
> believe, you would just move all the hardware things directly to MiNT. So
> even the hardware drivers would run under an emulated CPU? Weird, slow,
> dangerous.
>
> I believe it's easier to get a stripped down Linux distribution and
> install an Atari emulator on top of it (a new emulator that would allow
> you to access the underlying hardware, as I was talking about in a
> different mail).
>
> Petr
>
>
>

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