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From: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Keywords: Unix A2620
Message-ID: <598@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 8 Dec 90 08:29:46 GMT
References: <16094@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7185@sugar.hackercorp.com> <16325@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Dec6.191222.12243@ericsson.se>
Reply-To: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development
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In article <1990Dec6.191222.12243@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se writes:
>Is it technically possible to run the current implementation of Unix on
>an A2620 equipped Amiga 2000?

Yes, I do it all the time.  Our "standard" Beta release includes an
A2620/A2630 boot floppy, an A3000 boot floppy, an install floppy, and
a tape.  I beleive that for the initial A3000UX machines, they have
left out the A2620 floppy (why not?).  By the time we release, we hope
to have merged the boot procedures so that the A2000/A3000 boot
floppies will be replaced by one universal boot floppy.  That way,
regardless of what marketing decides, you A2620 owners can get Unix
because it'll be the same as for the A3000.  :-)

Right now, an A2620 or A2630 system uses its special boot ROM to boot
Unix, while an A3000 boots Unix using the improved boot procedure in
the 2.0 AmigaDOS ROM.  When we merge, this may have the ironic effect
of requiring you to select "AmigaDOS", not "Unix" in order to boot
Unix on an A2620.

					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ditto@amix.commodore.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		uunet!cbmvax!ditto
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ford@kenobi.commodore.com