Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 89 09:48:16 GMT References: <7812.AA7812@heimat> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech Distribution: usa Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 53 In-reply-to: sneakers@heimat.UUCP's message of 12 Apr 89 23:19:29 GMT In article <7812.AA7812@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes: >In Message <703@ivucsb.UUCP>, dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) writes: >>How about Commodore-Amiga Unix ... >> >>Comix! :-) >This whole discussion has gone past the comix stage and is no longer funny >or related to comp.sys.amiga.tech in the least! Quite so. I started the chain, requested names, but did not intend for multitudes of silly names to be posted, especially to .tech. I have since posted a request that any further name suggestions be Emailed to me at shadow@pawl.rpi.edu, not posted. I will probably stick with "Amigix" however... it's getting entrenched. :-) >Lets fact it Commodore is releasing the product and they will be naming it >officially what 'they' want it to be called. So enough of the cute names & >bullshit. Now back to some serious business.... BZZZ. Wrong answer! *I* am working on the project to get Unix-like syscalls and environment under Exec (not necessarily with AmigaDOS, but will coexist with AmigaDOS nicely) and as such, I get the power to be arbitrary and choose what I want. As I said, it looks like it'll be "Amigix". But, enough of the cute names and bullshit... With that I agree. >As for Minix under/over AmigaDOS, who cares? Lets face it Minix doesn't >have a real driver that allows modem/uucp communications so what good is it? Not Minix. Someone else is doing a Minix port, but like with Amix, you no longer have an Amiga when using that OS... you just have a Unix box. Not good. My project is to be based on Exec, and as such will use standard Exec device drivers. >Ive got an AT BridgeBoard running SCO Xenix and im real happy for now. When >I finally get to look at CBM's version of Unix (Lauren ;-) ill decide if >running AmigaDOS & Unix at the same time is important to me or not. Till then >im running Unix, MS-DOS, and AmigaDOS *now*, not just talking about it. Fine. Myself, I wouldn't dare try to write an Amiga based MS-DOS emulator, but I DO want Unix (of a sort) on an Amiga. Coexisting with Exec and AmigaDOS. (Though I hope to allow it to run standalone -- without AmigaDOS, but with Exec.) Hope this clears things up a little. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.