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From: biggers@topaz.ARPA (Mark Biggers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: info on 68K Unix-lookalikes
Message-ID: <364@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 22:46:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 22:46:22 1985
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Hello,

Now that there seems to be a trend toward more reasonably priced
68000-based personal micros (e.g. the new ataris, mac, etc), it
might be a good time to get some feedback from knowledgable people
about some of the available Unix-lookalike OS's available.

Recent ads in UNIX World and UNIX Review, among other mags,
have mentioned OS/9 68000 and TSC's Uniflex.  Would anyone
be willing to comment on these systems, with regard to such topics as:

	1) portability to new machines (personal experience
	with the above OS's would be good to share), ease of
	writing device drivers, company support for ports

	2) performance on "minimal" hardware (meaning no memory
	management, 256K or so bytes of memory, floppy-based
	file systems...)

	3) any other pertinent comments - software tools available
	with the standard package, quality of C (and other langs)
	compilers available, application support - you get the idea

I have experience with porting Whitesmith's Idris to the Sage IV
and Sage II, so I am not new to this.  Mail to me or this newsgroup,
my address is (I think, I am new to USENET)

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