Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!vsnyder From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: UNIX on an ST? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.182643.14834@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 18 Apr 91 18:26:43 GMT References: <0426455@fredw> Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 18 In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: > >>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. Brian Kernighan (I think) once remarked that "System 7 was an improvement on all of its successors." -- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder vsnyder@jato.uucp