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From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <275@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 20:52:13 GMT
References: <211@laic.UUCP>
Reply-To: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
Lines: 18
Posted: Tue Apr 26 16:52:13 1988

In article <211@laic.UUCP> darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>Has anyone bothered to think about writing a non-VM unix for the Amiga?
>Buying a 68020/851 card for the 2000 just to run unix seems like a waste
>to me.  Also, if it indeed requires 100Meg disk (and can't be pruned down
>to say... 10Meg) it will indeed be out of my league (I have no problem
>leaving find/uucp/vi/uncompress/etc. on floppy).
>
>I don't think (could be wrong) that Xenix requires any sort of special
>hardware (or gobs of file space).  Therefore, why is Commodore writing

I think you can run xenix on the bridgeboard.  If commodore offers a VM-unix
the user has a choice to step up to more power... if commodore offers only
a non-vm unix, then you have no choice (2 non-VM unices).

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