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From: SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Kevin Maguire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Does anybody no anything about UNIX on an Atari ST
Message-ID: <90150.161022SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 30 May 90 15:10:22 GMT
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In article <669@hexagon.pkmab.se>, daniel@hexagon.pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert)
says:
>
>In article <718@zinn.MV.COM> kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) writes:
>>You might also want to consider Mark Williams C and its companion
>  I don't think the MWC "msh" really is what he's looking for (Stefan is
>a friend of mine).  It has no multi-tasking capabilities (minix has, I
>presume?), and it is not compatible with unix on a source code level.
>Maybe the Gnu gcc with David B's "RTX" would do the trick.

Better sticking with minix and gcc. Yes minix is multi-tasking and gcc
tex, flex, yacc you name it everything is available for ST minix.
(Not PC though as the PC version has a limit of 64K for text and data
space 128K for big (?) processes). The ST is only limited by memory size.
OF course it's nice to have 4M as minix has no virtual memory, but
my 2.5M system is fine and my older 1M system is okay for one user.
   You can have multiple logins via the rs232 and midi ports ;-)

Kevin Maguire

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