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From: ralphw@TEMP.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: unix & GS
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Date: 4 Jan 88 13:32:54 GMT
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In article <871228152645.593250@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA writes:
>This is NOT intended to start any kind of rumor.  Dreaming that it would
>be nice to have an operating system for my GS that allowed concurrent
>operation (e.g., file transfers at the same time as wordprocessing) I am
>prompted to ask the following question:  does anyone know of anyone
>attempting to port Unix to the IIGS?  given a system with enough memory
>it ought to be possible, especially with C compilers apparently on the
>way.

Minix (a v7 Unix clone) should work ok, since the 65816 is similar to the 
8088.  Shouldn't take more then 512K for a reasonable port.  Since I don't
have a //GS or a C compiler for it I can't port it right now.
Check out comp.os.minix (or maybe info-minix-request@udel.edu) for details.

You could try to convince MicroWare to port OS-9 to the //GS, they have a 
nifty multitasking OS that runs on the Color Computer, and their working
on window system interfaces.

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