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From: harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Amiga
Message-ID: <1869@leo.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 14:57:15 GMT
References: <6836@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: CCI CPD (Advanced Development), Irvine CA
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In article <6836@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) writes:
> 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.

	Unix on the bridge card? Ack! Where is my feather!

	I feel better now.

	With the A2620 (MMU included), UNIX would be trivial. If one wanted UNIX
for the sake of UNIX, no problem at all.

	But if you wanted any hope of running ANY software you have now, this is
not trivial. It's a huge pain/can of worms.

	Just what would you do with a UNIX that doesn't support the world of the
Amiga?

	Would you be willing to have UNIX and no software. Well to be fair, you
could /etc/shutdown and reboot a game.

	What would you do with the graphics, the sound, the, the....

	Pretty heavy context switch, if you ask me.

	You could reinvent every application that currently exists for the
Amiga! ACK!

	Or you could have a UNIX that is compatable! You know, run everything
you have now! What a challenge! I would love to grapple with that one, just
to see it done right. You know, the ultimate form of compatabitilty, run a
game with realtime graphics, sound, controller response! Screw the reboot.
	
	Now that's the kind of UNIX I would like to see!!!!

	Or am I flashed off. Am I the ONLY person on the face of this planet
that feels this way?

	Somebody have a gun and shut me up!

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