Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX Message-ID: <1872@sugar.UUCP> Date: 22 Apr 88 01:12:52 GMT References: <211@laic.UUCP> <3663@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 46 Now this article got corrupted, but apparently not to badly... In article <3663@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > in article <211@laic.UUCP>, darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) says: > > Has anyone bothered to think about writing a non-VM unix for the Amiga? > > Buying a 68020/851 card... seems like a waste... > You don't absolutely have to have virtual memory in a UNIX system, though > ... that lots of stuff won't run without it... This isn't really an answer to the guy's question. To begin with it implies that UNIX is a hog. System V might be a hog (though it's way better than some of the proprietary operating systems certain well-known companies are developing), but UNIX <> System V. > What you must have, however, for a modern UNIX, is some form of memory > relocation, paging, whatever you'd like to call it. This gives you things What you need, however, for *any* UNIX (modern or not) is memory management. This is the point you should have started with... There is absolutely no need for a super huge hard disk, or a 68020, but you definitely need a '51. [ drivel from an sf-lovers discussion about Star Trek and Frederick Brown ] > The UNIX port for the Amiga is a real, AT&T System V.3, same thing that > runs on VAXen around the world. Last I checked the megaUNIX of choice for the Vax was BSD. > Xenix is something rather strange; I'm > not sure that kludge is the right word, but the fact that it's running on > AT[Clones] leads me to believe that kludge may not be the wrong word. System V runs fine on an AT. No, it's not as nice as a 68020, but I'm not sure that an 80386 system wouldn't have even odds of taking on a 68020 and not embarrasing itself. Anyway, just because it runs on an AT doesn't qualify Xenix as a kludge. The fact that it's Version 7 with some System III mods dolled up to look like System V, however, does. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.