Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: UNIX on an ST? Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 01:28:58 GMT References: <0426455@fredw> Organization: St. Croix Valley C and Ski Lines: 30 [In article <0426455@fredw>, fred@fredw (Fred Wells,System owner) writes ... ] > I recently overheard someone comment on an Atari Unix system being offered in > Europe. > > CAN IT BE TRUE? :-> Yeah. At CeBIT, Atari showed Unix System V running on the TT030 with X.Windows a graphical user interface called Wish. But it won't run on the ST. > When I often suggest Atari to someone entering the home computer world, their > first question is often, "what about Unix?" At which point I have to lower my > head and submit that I really don't know. :-( You can tell them about the TT, and you also can tell them about Minix, which is based on the specifications for Unix Version 7. (That's not a later version than System V -- v7 is more like System III.7.) It costs about $140 and is available from Prentice-Hall. See comp.os.minix. There was another Unix clone called Idris developed by Whitesmiths a couple of years ago, but it wasn't marketed properly (i.e., it wasn't available in stores at a reasonable price) and I think it's dead now. Mark Williams may also have worked on an ST version of Coherent, but so far as I know, it was never released. ---- Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org