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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68020 Amiga??
Message-ID: <7361@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 06:17:18 GMT
References: <9897@cup.portal.com> <4973@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: The Society for the Prevention of Amiga Madness (SPAM)
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In article <4973@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>You'll absolutely need an MMU for running UNIX, so that excludes all 68020
>based products except for the A2620.  A 68030 system could conceivably run
>UNIX, but there's no CBM support for that in UNIX at the moment.  This isn't
>to be intentionally hostile, but the A2620 has certain ROM code and
>registers that are used by the Commodore UNIX system.
>
	Please O please O please O *PLEASE* support the 68030.  It is in
your best interest to do so.

	Proof:  N people currently own the Ronin or CSA '030 daughterboard.
These N people have invested a considerable amount of $$$, not only in the
daughterboard and the '030 chip itself, but in the 68020 board that it's
sitting on.  These people will also be very interested in being able to run
UNIX when it becomes available.

	However, these people will be extremely disinclined to throw away
their investment in CPU hardware just to buy an A2620 so they can run UNIX.
They will instead come to this network and flame the living daylights out of
you for forcing them to buy your hardware.  These N people know that their
(*expensive*) hardware is fully capable of running UNIX, provided they can
get a hold of a UNIX to run on their hardware.  If the only UNIX available
runs only on your (as yet non-existent) hardware, they are going to feel
screwed.

	Therefore, it is in your best interest to write your UNIX to run on
'030-equipped systems.  QED.

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