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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga UNIX(R) *rumor* ...
Message-ID: <15626@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 14:14:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.15626
Posted: Mon Oct  5 14:14:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 05:01:20 EDT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: Take it for what it's worth


[ "Send lawyers, guns, and AT&T ..." ]

Pete Jordan posted this interesting tidbit on our internal Amiga
conference:
 
> UNIX System V on the A2000
>
> On the FAUG board, Thad [Floran <sp?>] said he recently talked to Rick
> Sterling, Sr QA test engineer at CBM.  Thad learned this:
>
> The CBM MMU for the A2000 (with 68020) is way beyond first silicon;
> is fully operational, UNIX System V now runs on the A2000 using the
> 68020 and the CBM MMU.  A demo will be given at Comdex this fall, and
> UNIX will be available for sale 1st qtr 1988.  The system will default
> to the UNIX System V and you will have to lean on the right mouse button
> in order to boot up as Amigados.
>
> Rick also said there were some other extremely exciting things coming
> from CBM for the Amiga, but he was not at liberty to divulge them.


Now, what I wanna know is ... what do I have to do to get BSD 4.x instead
of SysV, and it's braindamaged 14-character filename limit?  Perry, how
about with *your* 020 board ...?

/kim


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