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What MINIX versions supported Microchannel?

ardent-blue

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I'm bi-curious, blue, on 'nix flavors that run on Microchannel (MCA) systems. Yes, MINIX is an OS designed to help students learn how to program. Yes, 2.0 has TCP/IP built-in. But 2.0 (ABICT) is ISA or compatible. 1.5 does include PC, AT, and PS/2. I wendt back to '97 in Internet Archive, and 1.5 was already obsolete.

Downloads for previous releases .
Intel-1.1 to 1.6, Intel-1.7.0 to 1.7.5

Eventually, I intend to assemble a MINIX on MCA page, not expecting to bring up a MINIX system on any of my MCA systems.
 
Older Linux had microchannel support of sorts.
NetBSD did and probably still does run on some microchannel machines

Minix ran on MCA bus (at least old Minix did) providing you booted with the right esdi and mca incantations
 
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