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| Name: JPM | Email: | Date: Dec 25 2008 03:18:11 GMT |
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Subject: GCC compiler
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Reponse: Great site!
The link for your gcc project documentation site is down currently. Does that site still work?
Thanks.
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Subject: Thanks for your efforts
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Reponse: Thank you for this site. I had bought the earlier version of the operating systems book on Minix. That time i was in college and could not understand much. All though after all my efforts i could write a small operating system. Now after around 2 years i started looking at Minix again. In the course of finding help on Minix i came across your site. This seems very helpful. I haven't been through this completely yet, but certainly this seems to be very promising.
Thanks for your time and efforts towards helping people build an understanding of the internals of operating systems.
Also thanks to the team which built Minix and provided such a promising platform for study of this subject.
Regards,
Ravinder Singh.
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| Name: Ben | Email: | Date: Jul 06 2007 16:48:55 GMT |
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Subject: Broken links
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Reponse: The links at http://www.os-forum.com/minix/boot/undoc.php do not work.
br,
ben
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| Name: Andrew | Email: | Date: Jul 13 2007 13:40:11 GMT |
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Subject: Re: Broken links
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Reponse: I fixed these.
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| Name: cezary | Email: | Date: Mar 30 2006 12:13:50 GMT |
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Subject: Really good job.
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Reponse: You've done a really good job. Thank you.
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Subject: Congratulations
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Reponse: Great job, thank you!
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| Name: Andrew D. Balsa | Email: | Date: Oct 01 2005 01:55:36 GMT |
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Subject: Congratulations and a big thank you !
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Reponse: Thanks for the very valuable information which was unavailable before.
Great website!
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Subject: Lots of Thanks and HELP
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Reponse: I spent a lot of time reading this site carefully and learned quite a lot.
I've a question about the line of assembly code 6090 (code listing in the text book )in the mpx386.s.
lgdt (_gdt+GDT_SELECTOR)
I think the globle descriptor table just copied from boot's section by the previous few lines of code can still be used at that place, because they are the same as the content of gdt except the second entry. The switch can be postponed until the gdt has been completely initialized by the prot_init(). I tested by deleting 06090, then the system failed to boot. I can't figure out why !!!!
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Subject: Paper on booting Linix and OpenBSD
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Reponse: There is an article called "A Study of Initialization in Linux and OpenBSD" in the April 2005 issue of the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. I think it would be of interest to anyone reading this page. Unfortunately, it's not available for free, although the abstract and references can be seen online at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1055218.1055226&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&idx=1055218&part=periodical&WantType=periodical&title=ACM%20SIGOPS%20Operating%20Systems%20Review&CFID=42562101&CFTOKEN=97757749
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Subject: The file "installboot.html" doesn't appear to exis
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Reponse: Just a quick note to say that the reference to the file installboot.html returns an error when trying to locate it.
Just a cursory look, but so far it appears to be quite useful. I'll be back a later time to look more fully at it.
Thanks for putting it up for others to look at.
regards
from Australia
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Subject: Understanding Minix (and OS in general)
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Reponse: I'm glad you are trying to make this a little easier. Andy's OS 2nd ed. is very hard for me.
What's needed is a kind of OS tutorial. First, create a small OS, like the toy-os website does. I think I could do this now, thanks to you. Then the tutorial could add incrementally to the OS until finally we possess and understand it all.
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Subject: assembler types
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Reponse: Pls can you tell me which assembler is used for Minix (NASM, MASM?) and what is the prefered one now - Im a bit confused on which one to start with as there are so many around. Thanks very much for the help - Luxman
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| Name: Sam | Email: | Date: Mar 31 2004 06:40:39 GMT |
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Subject: Re: assembler types
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Reponse: Hello. The assembler used in MINIX is not NASM or MASM. MINIX uses its own assembler.
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Subject: Re: assembler types
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Reponse: I have collected some information and pointers to information about Minix assembly language and other aspects of programming in Minix on my web page: http://minix1.hampshire.edu/faq/program.html
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| Name: david | Email: | Date: Jan 20 2004 18:39:02 GMT |
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Subject: help
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Reponse: Do you have any plans on documenting other parts of minix? If so how can people help?
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| Name: Andrew Swartzbaugh | Email: | Date: Jan 21 2004 07:18:27 GMT |
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Subject: Re: help
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Reponse: Brent and I are busy at the moment with other projects. At some point, I would like to document the networking service but I'm not sure when that will be.
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Subject: Re: help
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Reponse: If I want to implement a firewall with Minix operating system.How can I begin with it? The fd tables?
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Reponse: Awesome little website! Perfect addition to the book (THE most readable book on OS's). The use of HTMl and JavaScript to explain the code is excellent.
Programming is a 'simple' logical process and I cannot see why a beginner would have any problem reading it with the comments (if he/she has actually bothered to read any books (Computer System Architecture (Prentice Hall) M. Morris Mano is a good start) and has any interest in the subject). Seems to me that most people don't want to learn any more :-(
Keep up the good work .... I'm sure you are having fun(between bouts of frustration!)!
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Reponse: Thanks for the awesome website. Extremely helpful! Can you expand the minix help by maybe offering other sections of the OS, too?? :-)
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Reponse: you bring a great gift to me ..thx
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Reponse: Thanks for the grgeat breakdown, I've been having no end of troubles getting minix2.0.3 to boot under Virtual PC,and create a bootable CD, this info looks like it will really help me out!
Thanks!
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Reponse: first, thanks for your work. I have get
a lot of from you work.
second,Why the boothead.s can't "expand all ".
(I am English is not well please excuse)
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Reponse: Really excellent job. I believe that it is very helpfull for not the beginner, so really good for the advanced user.
Regards,
Claudio
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Reponse: Why is the status quo with most older OS's (GEM, Minix, etc.) considered good enough for others who tinker with the OS? I mean, the Minix filesystem, from what little I can understand about it, seems to operate in the silliest fashion... REQUIRING four partitions and REQUIRING subpartitions. Sounds old to me Why can't someone rewrite it so that it can see the entire hard drive (what with the 15GB+ sizes nowadays) and then allow you to create either one HUGE partition (I do that usually) or break it up into as many partitions as you want? If I knew how to program, I'd be on it in a second, but I don't, so I can't. Luposian
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