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From: tll@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: > Amiga Unix (Was GVP Acceloraters)
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.172320.4773@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:23:20 GMT
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dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:

>(jason@cbmami.UUCP)
>In comp.sys.amiga.hardware you write:

>>	In particular, can a rev7 GVP 50 MHz run Unix?

>No A2X00, with the possible exception of a few inside C-A, is running
>a released version of UNIX.  The ONLY Amigas currently supported are
>A3000s.  When (if?) an A2500/30 version is released, someone may also
>port it to GVP.  I don't know if GVP could afford the $250,000 cost for
>a source license and development, though.  The GVP boards CAN run UNIX.
>Anything that has an '030 and a couple of Meg of RAM can.  It's more a
>question of whether, or not, there will ever be a port.  Even though
>I, too, have an a2630, I'd like to see GVP provide viable alternatives
>in the market.

>Dan Taylor

It is my belief that Commodore will be selling a UNIX and anybody with an MMU,
lots of memory, and a big hard drive will be able to run it on their Amiga.  
In other words, I think Commordore has dropped the UNIX boot ROM idea. So 
the UNIX should won't be accelerator specific.  There won't be any need for GVP 
to do a specific port.

Tal Lancaster