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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX Release Date?
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Date: 28 May 90 07:22:47 GMT
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On 28 May 90 04:40:37 GMT you said:
>In article <11786@cbmvax.commodore.com>, valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com
>(Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>>
>> Actually, a 68020 is necessary because many instructions that the UNIX
>> operating system is using are available only on 68020+ processors.
>Admittedly,
>> a special version could be compiled that used only 68010 instructions, but
>> that would not be worth it. Speed-wise, the Release 4 kernel feels
>comfortable
>> on the 68030, providing it with a 68010 would result in rather shameful
>> performances.
>>
>> Valentin
>> --
>
>Maybe you haven't seen a sun-2 workstation? They used a 68010 processor and
>they ran unix. What you say here is that Unix won't run on anything but a
>68020, 68030 and later a 68040. What about all those Unix versions that run
>on processors like 80386, SPARC, MIPS, VAX 11-780, ..........
>
     I think his point was that AMIX requires an 020 or better.  You could
 probably get Unix running on a 6502, you just wouldn't *WANT* to.  I have
 a machine that runs Xenix on a 68000, but I don't brag about it.

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