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From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Amiga UNIX
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Date: 27 Oct 90 08:06:12 GMT
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Howdy.  Well, since they are answering questions concerning UNIX, I have
a couple.

1.  Do you have AFS running?  Do you plan on getting it going?  AFS
   is MUCH, MUCH better than NFS.  You can contact Transarc corporation
   concerning getting AFS for the Amiga.
1a.  If you got AFS going on these things, you can do neat things like
   copying directly from any machine running AFS on the internet instead
   of having to FTP to it.  AFS uses ACLs.  Kinda neat for doing distribution
   of new releases of software, just cp it from an AFS cell as opposed to
   worrying about FTP, or tape (and tape compatability), etc.
   AFS this, AFS that...
1b.  Anybody working on AFS for native Amiga OS?  This would be way cool...
   I doubt that anybody is though, since AFS is kinda new and networking
   isn't too widespread on the Amiga, yet ...

2.  I read that you have Motif running.  That is nice since many like
   Motif as a GUI.  I would like to have Open Look myself (hey! What a
   coincidence! 8-)  What rev of X11 are you running R4 or R3?
2a. What X clients come standard?  We're trying to get C= to come do
   a presentation of their UNIX box to University of Michigan.  If they
   do come, then it would be suggested that they be running Motif since
   CAEN (Computer Aided Engineering Network) is trying to move to a
   consistent look and feel across all of its platforms.  This consists
   of X and Motif.  I hope that we can get C= to come.  That way, I get
   to play with a 3000UX 8-)  Of course, C= could also show CAEN the
   foolishness of running Motif instead of Open Look.

3.  Is the scheduler in V.4 any better than in previous releases?  UNIX
   certainly doesn't suit realtime 8-(

4.  What is recommended (both in docs, and by the C= folks who actually
   did the work) amount of disk space?  I'm thinking about 300 megs,
   of course, the bigger the better 8-)

5.  Do you have the Sun Lightweight Process Library ported?  Is there
   the ability to run lightweight processes in Amiga UNIX?  Sun LWP lib
   is actually co-routines, and isn't very pretty to work with.

6.  Provisions for non-blocking I/O?

7.  Shared memory segments (ie, shared segment between >= two processes)?

8.  Any hope of having native Amiga OS processes running under UNIX?  I
   suppose that this one has been beaten to death 8-)  I also suppose that
   this is one of those hush-hush items.

			Thanks, Ralph


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