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From: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: unix on the amiga
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 12:36:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 12:36:55 1986
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Keywords: MINIX UNIX Amiga
Summary: MINIX port?

In article <781@ulowell.UUCP> rkn@ORNL-MSR.ARPA (Roger E. Stoller 576-7886) writes:
>Is anyone aware of a unix port for the amiga?  Either finished or in progress.
    This seems as good a time as any to post this.  Andrew Tanenbaum has just
finished a very tiny UNIX Version 7 workalike called MINIX, which will be
available in January from Prentice Hall Software for $80, INCLUDING SOURCE!!
While it implements all the UNIX system calls, it is implemented as a set of
four interlocking servers, all written in C and communicating via message
passing in the best object-oriented philosophy.  One of the many advantages
of this approach is that you can probably port parts of it (like the file
server, for example) to get some UNIX-like features on your Amiga.
     How tiny?  Well, you can buy a version which will run on a 256K PC/XT
with 1 floppy.  You can't "cc" with this combination, though;  for that,
you'd need 640K and two floppies.  Sounds like a candidate for Amiga
porting;  a generic 68000 version of MINIX is under development right now.
     For you OS hackers, Tanenbaum is giving a paper on MINIX's design
at USENIX in January.