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From: biggers@topaz.ARPA (Mark Biggers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: info on Unix-lookalikes
Message-ID: <445@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 12:02:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 12:02:27 1985
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Hello again,

Recent responses to my original posting querying the net about
Unix-lookalike ** OSs ** for "small" 68k micros have me wondering if
people read the request.

I like 4.2BSD Unix also, even though most of my work is done under
System V.  BUT there ain't no way that 4.2 (or probably) System V
is gonna run on these new atari machines, or hardware like the Sage IV
which I used in the past.

I am interested in Uniflex and OS9-68000 for the very reason a lot of
system developers might have - (alleged) good performance on minimal
hardware like that above.  I have heard lots of good about OS-9 running
on the RS Color Computer, and gosh, if that ain't minimal hardware, I
don't know what is.

Yes, you can run Unix-like systems with no memory management, and get
good performance.  Our Sage IV port of Idris (whitesmith's) used a
version of Idris-68k that allowed for a portion of memory to be used
as a swap cache.  We could run 3-4 users on a Sage IV with pretty good
performance - the only slowdown was that the CPU had to manage disk-head
seeks on this machine.

MY experience with Idris and CRDS' UNOS has shown that at least these
look-alikes had some nice features.  "Real" UNIX shines in its maturity
of utilities and familiar features, over the look-alikes.

I guess I should quit being lazy and just *write* to these companies
(TSC and Microware :^).

Mark
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