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From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Amiga
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Date: 3 Feb 88 08:32:40 GMT
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Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* drh@spock.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) wrote:
...Cheers,
...
...There has been some debate about Unix availability for the Amiga.

...D. Ryan Hawley

I don't know about the actual availability of Unix on the Amiga, I 
think that would be quite a project, and remember that there are those
at Commodore who feel that if you want something on the A2000 you
can always put it on the bridge card side of the world.  I would love
to see Unix on the Amiga and with all this '020 back and forth I would
imagine that Unix can't be an impossibility.  Infact, if Unix does
make it out for the 2000 I may end up getting one of those suckers 
after all.

That would be one of the first real uses that I would have for the 
2000 over my beloved 1000s.  I can survive without the [1|2] meg
of chip ram, and any additional graphic features would HAVE to be
emulated with some sort of SetFunction so that software would run
on UnEnhanced Amigas (albiet slower).

One question for any WC people who are still reading this message,
what is happening with the supply of 1000 motherboards that we have
sent back to you all these years?  Are they getting repaired?  Do
they get stacked in a pile in the back forty?  Is it possible for
those of us sticking with the 1000 to get some of them cheap as
kind of a PARTS machine(s)?