Mint fruit salad

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Atari Mint fruit salad system and its successors. Work on MiNT began in 1989, as the developer Eric Smith was trying to port the GNU library and related utilities on the Atari ST TOS. It turned out quickly, that it was much easier to add a Unix-like layer to the TOS, than to patch all of the GNU software, and MiNT began as a TOS extension to help in porting.

The new Kernel got traction, with people contributing a port of the MINIX Filesystem and a port to the Atari TT. At the same time Atari was looking to enhance the TOS with multitasking abilities, they found that MiNT could fulfill the job, and hired Eric Smith. MiNT was adopted as an official alternative kernel with the release of the Atari Falcon, slightly altering the MiNT acronym into “MiNT is Now TOS”. A minimal install of MiNT will run on an Atari ST with its stock 8 MHz 68000 CPU, with 4 MB RAM and a hard drive.

It is highly recommended that an Atari computer with a 16 MHz 68030 CPU and 8 MB of RAM be used. MiNT can also run inside the emulators Hatari and STEem, and with networking on the 68040 virtual machine Aranym. Atari ST – History of The OS”. MiNT is Now TOS—an interview with Mr Eric R. Follow the guide to learn how to download and install Linux Mint.

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