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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Software development from Hell!
Keywords: Minix UNIX
Message-ID: <13809@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 07:11:17 GMT
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In article <13031@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>Has anyone attempted to port MINIX to the Apple IIgs?
>If it can run on a 640K PC it ought to be able to run on an Apple //gs.
>(The PC I refer to, BTW, is an 8088).

	Could you describe MINIX? Isn't it just a shell that "sort of looks
and acts" like UNIX's cshell, but doesn't do any of the 'real' things 
UNIX can do? (i.e. multitasking, sockets, etc.)

>I realize that it would be difficult to get a C compiler running under
>minix generating '816 code,  but how much work would it be to get the
>kernel up and running?  

	Well it's seem to me that ORCA/C could be modified "minimally"
(heh heh heh) to be able to work on a GS UNIX.

>This thought occurred to me as I was thinking about how ridiculous it
>would be to put UNIX on an Apple //gs.  Then, says I, why not?  They've
>had minix and QNX, and other low-end pseudo-UNIX-Clones running on 8088s
>for years.  Why can't we have a pseudo-UNIX-Clone (above and beyond
>APW/ORCA) running on the GS?  

	Why a pseudo-UNIX clone? Why not a -real- UNIX? Sorry my oath
of nondisclosure prevents me from going into further detail about the rumors
I have heard. Hopefully some of those involved will speak up! (HINT HINT!)
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