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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Amiga
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Date: 29 Feb 88 18:08:31 GMT
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In article <197@wsccs.UUCP> terry@wsccs.UUCP writes:
>In article <645@nuchat.UUCP>, peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Hey, if apple can run mac-software-that-was-never-designed-with-multitasking-
>> in-mind under UNIX, surely commodore can get a UNIX that supports well-behaved
>> amiga-software-in-protected-mode.
>
>	If by UNIX, you mean Berkley $.3 or SystemV.3, not a snowballs chance.
>Commodore, in it's infinite wisdom, use the 68000 chip, not a 68010, so the
>Amiga can't run a vmunix... it can't support an MMU.  Tandy was able to get

I think the idea is to run Unix when you have an A2620 in your machine - that's
Commodore's 68020 board with the 68851 PMMU... You can also sell a Unix that
wants a 68010 for the Amiga, simply include the chip as part of the package.

>	If by "well-behaved", you mean compatable with the idea of not doing
>the nasty-no-no (MPSW), workbench fails that test.  Try replacing your 68000
>with a 68010 and adding something using the desk calculator.

What? - are you still running 1.1? This bug has been fixed since 1.2 came out...

>	The amount of care required by such a task (get it? 'task'?) is more
>than adequately summed up by your next sentence:
>
>> A whole shitload of work on the pat of whoever sets it up...
>
>> If you need a dedicated UNIX and Amiga fanatic to work on it, I'm not that
>> cheap but I am enthusiastic :->/2.

I'm sure some large organization like Commodore might consider the task one
that they could handle... I seem to remember that they had Unix developers
in house for the now defunct Commodore 900 series. You don't need to spend
the money on development...

Eric

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