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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why all of this NeXT talk?
Keywords: A3000UX NeXT stop rediculous
Message-ID: <19091@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 20:03:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.083920.27791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1531@pdxgate.UUCP> <18897@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb17.200210.16197@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb17.200210.16197@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) writes:
>In article <18897@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>In article <1531@pdxgate.UUCP> hal@eecs.UUCP (Aaron Harsh) writes:
>>>In article <1991Feb9.083920.27791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) writes:
>>>>Amiga running Unix on multiple T800 processors!?  If you want number
>>>>crunching... you got it!

>>>  Do you think that Commodore has developed a UNIX to run on multiple
>>>T800 processors?  Do you think Commodore will ever develop one?

>>I don't think anyone will.  However, INMOS has already announced this 

>Sorry, Cogent Research, Beaverton OR, already did it.  

UNIX-ish, or UNIX?  You would kind of need an MMU and all for real UNIX, would
you not?  Helios, for example, looks like UNIX, but since the T800 has no 
memory protection, its not real UNIX.  You can protect tasks from one another 
by locating them on separate Transputers, but that's a bit of overkill.  I
don't think my number of tasks should ever be limited by the number of
processors in my system.

You make a very large leap in what you can and cannot do and what the OS really 
does when you trade "UNIX" for "kinda like UNIX".  

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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