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From: chrisf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris H. Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: UNIX*ish* Amiga software
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.093756.1638@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 20 Jun 91 09:37:56 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Hi there folks. I'm amazed. I was just talking to a friend of mine who's an
ST fanatic and he told me (and showed me) that they have BASH (a GREAT shell
which would elevate the amiga to a new level of software development 
compatibility), they've *HAD* GCC for about a year and we're just finishing 
up versions of ours (the wilde port seems quite good), they've got G++, 
MGR (A Multi Window communications protocol similar to DNET but *WITH* 
GRAPHICS support!) and a Modified TOS called MINT which is a Unix subset..


The reason I rattled all that off is NOT to make the amiga or the amiga PD 
world look bad, I'm just wondering why more effort hasn't been put in to 
developing these products... 

It's really easy to criticize and I'll be the first to admit that, but it's 
just too bad that we're not up to par with what they've got over there on the 
ST :)

If anyone knows of any completed versions of these or things like it/them, 
let me know...

sincerely,
Chris