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From: fst@gtenmc.UUCP (Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IDRIS (Was: Does anybody no anything about UNIX on an Atari ST)
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Date: 10 Jun 90 02:06:09 GMT
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In article <2879@ariel.unm.edu> deichert@hydra.unm.edu (Diana Eichert) writes:
>>> ...
>>>I would be intererested to hear from any users about their experience
>>>with IDRIS.  I would be more interested to hear comparisons between
>>>IDRIS and OS/9.
[deleted]
>I had an evaluation copy of IDRIS back in the fall of '87, it was the full
>up developers version with the C & Pascal compilers also.  I didn't really
>do much with it as I did not win the contract that I had proposed using
>the ST with IDRIS.
>Whitesmith did not do the port for the ST, it was done by a company in the
>Seattle area called Computer Tools International. At one of the Comdex's
>many years ago Atari made lots of fan fair on how IDRIS was going to be the 
>official UNIX-type OS for the ST AND then they promptly dropped it.
>X-windows Rev. 10 was also ported to IDRIS by Computer Tools.  This all
>I can remember as this is close to a 2.5 year memory.
>diana eichert
>deichert@hydra.unm.edu


Well, Computer Tools and IDRIS-ST are still alive and mostly selling
in Europe.   Computer Tools ported the liberated BSD networking software
(TCP/IP and the ``r'' utilities) to IDRIS and IDRIS-ST over a year ago and 
the overseas customer for whom the port was done, seems to be very satisfied
with it.   Unfortunately nobody else could use this code on the ST/MEGA since
there are no ethernet cards (other than the handful that Computer Tools built)
commercially available for these machines.  One could still use the SL/IP
to hookup to VAXen and such.

X11R3 is ported to the IDRIS-ST, but due to the size of X11 not very
realistic for use in this environment.  I was thinking of porting the
Bellcore MGR window system to the IDRIS-ST, since it is much smaller and
well suited for ST/MEGAs; I never did continue with it since ATARI ST/MEGA
systems seem to be dying a slow death.

Europe seems to be more interested in doing ``real'' stuff with IDRIS than
U.S., perhaps due to price of computers.

To the original poster:
If you are interested, send for information to this e-mail address:

	tiny1!pat@gtenmc


Hope this helps
Skip

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