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From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: unix on the 520st (why there is none)
Message-ID: <167@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 11:27:49 EST
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> In article <159@imagen.UUCP> turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) writes:
> >i wouldn't bet my terminal too quickly, there WILL be a unix
> >available from Atari and it will be AT&T V7, but not for the ST. The
> >above reasons while not vital are critical enough to make it too
> >difficult to do. The Atari port will be for the TFM machine and your
> >timeframe is about right, nothing is set in concrete but it will be
> >a black box with a 68020 (i hope) or a 32032 in it and it will use
> >the ST as an intelligent front end, windowing terminal etc.
> 
> WHy would they want to put AT&T V7 on the 32 bit machine. There is no
> excuse for anything less than 4.3BSD + a nice window manager considering
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for the same reason IBM picked an intel 8086 for the PC,
political/finacial reasons not technical, also like it or not (and i
dont) SVR2 is becoming the unix standard amoungst big companies (IBM
AT&T DEC etc.)
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