Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX on Amiga 500? Message-ID: <8772@gollum.twg.com> Date: 16 Mar 91 22:46:01 GMT References: <1991Mar9.231842.20395@jack.sns.com> <9103120946.56@rmkhome.UUCP> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 38 In article <9103120946.56@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >In article <1991Mar9.231842.20395@jack.sns.com> jtanner@jack.sns.com (Jason Tanner) writes: >> A friend told me it is possible to run UNIX (Sys V) On an Amiga 500 since >>it uses a 68000 processor like an AT&t Unix-PC. This is an exciting prospect! >>Is this true? If so what company manufactures it? > >The only available UNIX for the Amiga is SYS V Release 4. It requires hardware >memory management, which the 500 does not have. > >If you want UNIX on your Amiga, you will have to upgrade. Well.. there is MINIX, and it runs on stock 500's and 2000's. (or so the box claimed, I doubt it's using any speshul features of the newer machines meaning that it "should" work on a 1000...) HT Electronics had Minix v1.5 in the store ($130) when I was there a few minutes ago. Minix is V7 compatible which means that it's pretty darn stripped down. On the other hand it *is* the last version of Unix which was small enough to be understandable by someone interested in learning OS internals. Minix is a ground-up rewrite and is fully described in Tannenbaum's book on Operating Systems. The Amiga Minix packages includes disks with binaries on it and source listings (not source on disk ;-( ... sigh!). It includes scads and scads of utility programs & a C compiler. Doesn't mention UUCP! For Real True Blue Unix you gotta go with a 3000 or 2000+26{2,3}0 ... (And the last hasn't been verified as an Officially Supported Platform for Amiga Unix, just that some internal C= people use that as their Unix machine rather than a 3000) -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future