Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Unix
Keywords: job control? ksh? psuedo tty's? Sockets?
Message-ID: <5548@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 02:43:34 GMT
References: <312@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <5495@cbmvax.UUCP> <437@sirius.UUCP>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 49
Disclaimer: Contains preliminary information, subject to change, etc...

In article <437@sirius.UUCP> gmd@sirius.UUCP (George MacDonald) writes:
>	Could the amiga's graphics be made available via a device driver?

Graphics will be available this way, but don't be expecting graphics.library
or intuition. :-|

>On a similar vein, why choose a yet another proprietary windowing system(YAPWS),
>why not X, or NeWS or display postscript? Of course with some reasonable
>graphic primitives these could be added later!

The current (proprietary) windowing system is specifically designed for
the Amiga graphics hardware, and is much faster than X could be, for
example.  There is support for adding other display systems, and all of
your suggestions are quite possible.

>Are psuedo tty's going to be in CA-UNIX? Maybe these could be emulated
>using streams?

There is a real pseudo tty driver included.  They can't easily be
implemented with streams yet because AT&T hasn't released their streams
version of the tty driver.

>Anyhow Commodore could you perhaps bundle the ksh to your version of UNIX?

Since I prefer ksh over anything, I am pushing for this.  (Yes, It is part
of SysVr4, but that's about a year away.)

>Sockets would be nice, but how useful would they be without an ethernet
>board?

Not very.  So get an ethernet board.  (I'm not sure yet whether we will
provide drivers for the Ameristar board, but I'm sure someone will.)

>Will Shared memory, message queues, semaphore's be supported?

Of course.

>Do any of the beta testers reside on the net? If so it would be interesting
>to here your *positive* comments. 

It would be interesting to hear negative comments, too (in the interest of
eliminating them).
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com