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From: harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <3023@leo.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 88 09:16:38 GMT
References: <211@laic.UUCP>
Organization: CCI CPD (Advanced Development), Irvine CA
Lines: 47
Summary: Unix or Amiga?


	First off, what I say will be severely controversial and ideological.
It might even contain religion. 8^)

	Take this with a grain of salt.

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?

	I like Dave Haynie's suggestion in the May issue of Amiga Sentry.
It was, VM for AmigaDos. With the FFS, this is a very good suggestion.
It could simply smoke a UNIX implemention.

	Add to this, remapping of the rom, to a 32-bit ram image, then
protecting this as read only.

	Awesome.

> Buying a 68020/851 card for the 2000 just to run unix seems like a waste
> to me.

	It would be, were it not for the 68881. The MMU can also be put to
use. Oh can it!
	
	Well, here is where I split off.

	As we all know, we have nearly a Sun workstation! 

	If only a Sun had realtime response, and Amiga applications.
(AMI versus Sparc ABI? 8^))

	Given the above scenario, why screw around with UNIX at all?

	Think about it, a Sun workstation is virtually a single user machine.

	So is an Amiga.

	Only the Amiga doesn't pay the price of UNIX overhead (in multi-user
chores) or lack of realtime response. 

	Hmmmmm.


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