Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <2236@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 04:30:29 GMT
References: <1985@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <4079@cbmvax.UUCP> <6811@cup.portal.com> <4159@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <4159@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
> 	Well, then say so.  No one ever did, and the discussion started
> about how one would run Unix/implement fork() on a 68000 w/o MMU.

Well, I think we all know the two ways of doing it by now, n'est pas?

> 	It seems the only other company I have heard of that was talking
> about doing Un*x for the Amiga (Amnix, I forget the companies name) supposedly
> is no longer answering their phone.

I spoke to them when they were answering the phone (AMIX, Lamplighter Software,
Salt Lake City UTAH). It sounded more like a UNIX compatibility library and
a lot of UNIX utilities. Sort of like Unica on CP/M boxes. Anyway, it's a pity
they seem to have dried up... I'd have paid good money for that.

> 	fork() was implemented by the ST-Minix people, and apparently it works
> pretty well (this is the copy data/stack version, I believe).

Well, if you had to put up with ST system software, I'm sure it'd look damn
good in comparison.

Now then, how about XINU? Anyone done anything more than read the book?
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