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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some thoughts
Message-ID: <347@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 17:08:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.347
Posted: Mon Feb  2 17:08:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Feb-87 23:35:34 EST
References: <17128@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <17128@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@shadow.berkeley.edu (Mike Robinson) writes:
>
>I have giving some thought recently to the future configuration of my Amiga
>(CPU, OS, mass storage, etc.).  In particular, I was thinking about the
>inevitable port of MINIX to the Amiga.

[some discussion of why we want Unix, comparing Unix with Minix ...]

>MINIX only really has three claims to unixness:
>
>   1. It comes with a number of common UNIX utilities.
>
>   2. It comes with a UNIX-like shell.
>
>   3. It supports many common UNIX system calls.
>
>
>So my idea, the point of all this, is to make AmigaDOS look like UNIX.
......
>It seems to me that the only thing necessary for a UNIX environment on the
>Amiga, that is even more free than MINIX, is a (loosely) organized and
>(loosely) coordinated effort to duplicate the environment, with duplication
>as the explicit goal.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Comments?

I wholeheartedly agree. Let's stop discussing (arguing) about the relative
merits of things in Unix vs whatever, and simply adopt the Unix standard
as a whole because it is probably the best and most widely used. That way,
we have a solid starting point (standard), and can concentrate on the actual
implementation.

Who knows, if we do it well, maybe Commodore will adopt it as a replacement
for CLI!! That would be a switch!

I am all for it, it seems that there are already some projects being done as
a coordinated "net" effort, would one of those volunteer to lead this?

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