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From: dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Acceloraters
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.003740.18783@unislc.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 91 00:37:40 GMT
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From article <871@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, by dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor):
> (jason@cbmami.UUCP)
> In comp.sys.amiga.hardware you write:
> 
>>	In particular, can a rev7 GVP 50 MHz run Unix?
> 
> 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.

So, what is the problem with GVP boards?  Just because I use Syvania
light bulbs instead of Phillips light bulbs doesn't mean I should have
to port my electricity.  It runs AmigaDOS/EXEC right?  Have they
lobotomized the MMU? (difficult when its on the same chip with the cpu)

Is the memory strange?  Unix ported to run on a 68030 should run
on a 68030.  Now admittedly you could have different bus/hardware things to
worry about if it were a different architecture (like running unix on a
68030 based Machintosh vs. a 68030 based Amiga).  But this thing
runs AmigaDOS/EXEC and somehow I dont think commodore has code that goes
If GVP then boot custom EXEC; I also don't think GVP has this code either.

I've never seen the GVP board, but if this is a legitimate claim (that it
won't run commodore UNIX)  i'd like to know what they did to achieve this.
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