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From: jason@cbmami.UUCP (Jason Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Acceloraters
Message-ID: <18da5075.ARN0f44@cbmami.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 91 21:23:49 GMT
References: <18d4fcbb.ARN0f1d@cbmami.UUCP> <871@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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In article <871@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, Dan Taylor writes:

> (jason@cbmami.UUCP)
In comp.sys.amiga.hardware I 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.

I know that the GVP's have the hardware to run Unix, and obviously if they
wanted to pay the licencing fee and development time they could port Unix
to their accelerators, but I see that as being completely unlikely.  I was
more hoping that the CBM version of the Unix software will run on the GVP
boards (possible with the addition of software drivers and or ROMS on the
GVP.)  Currently all my A3000UX are still beta but I am supposed to get the
released PIC tape this Friday.  I assume that soon it will be available for
my A2500/030 at home as well.  I just want to know, when I sell a GVP board
to a customer, what his upgrade possibilities to Unix are.


-Jason-

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Jason Goldberg				UUCP: ucsd!serene!cbmami!jason
Del Mar, CA