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From: Arved@cup.portal.com (Arved Guido Grass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Very Local Network
Message-ID: <11251@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Nov 88 06:23:46 GMT
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The title of this particular thread, coupled with the recent announcement
of a 68000 version of MINIX, has got me thinking:

The Commodore Amiga 1000 and 2000 can be configured as dual-processor machine
(in both cases, an 8086 XT compatible running side-by-side with the 68000 base
Amiga).  When MINIX gets ported to the Amiga, it will open a whole new vista
insofar as networking within the same machine.

Of course, some details will have to be worked out, such as porting the curren
JANUS library over (what the Amiga uses to control the XT half, if equiped).

Unfortunately, this is beyond my level of expertise.

Yes, I also know that the MAC II series can have an 80286 processor card 
installed.  Also, whoever is porting this code to the Amiga: please remember 
that many Amigas are equiped with 68010s, 68020s. and 68030s, and should have
code upwardly compatible from the 68000 (not too much of a restriction,
really).
- Arved

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