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From: ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
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Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga ???
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Date: 13 Jul 89 18:03:38 GMT
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Maybe we should add the following statement to the monthly Intro to the
Amiga Groups postings:

Every so often, someone wonders if Minix is on the Amiga yet.  I'm
sure people are working on it, and am equally sure that it will see
limited use and utility for a long time; after all, the Amiga comes
out of the box with a small, message-passing, true multi-tasking OS
which takes advantage of all the Amiga's special hardware.  The Amiga
C compilers contain workalikes for many of the Unix system calls, and
a great deal of Unix software has been ported to the Amiga, including
but not limited to diff (with contexts), patch, GNU grep, GNU sed,
several varieties of Make; there is also a csh-like shell in the
public domain and a very good version of Lint which lists for $99.
And with ARexx (Amiga REXX) and a decent hard disk, my Amiga is a
better software development environment than most Unix boxes I've
used.
--
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
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