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From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh)
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Subject: Re: UNIX on Atari ST or Commodore Amiga?
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 13:36:31 EDT
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>   Supposedly a CD can hold about 550 megabytes, so it would be easy to
> put the UNIX manual pages and system programs (kernel, ls, cat, yacc, etc.)
> onto a CD (an audio CD now sells for about $15-$20, so bug-fixes and
> upgrades shouldn't be expensive), then use a small hard-disk drive or
> even one of the new fast mini-floppies for the rest of the system that
> can't be put in ROM.
The main problem with the CD/ROM is that the worst case access time is
over 1 second. On second thought, perhaps its not such a problem people
used to a heavily loaded vax might see a performance improvement.
 
I am sure that someone, somewhere, is going to put some flavor of UNIX
on the new 68000 machines. Most of the people that are considering it
complain that the memory management on the ST/Amiga is too simple for
the kind of UNIX system they want. 

A good alternative for the ST might be OS-9 (level 1) which as far as I
can tell has all the things I like about UNIX, and the Amiga is supposed
to come with a multi tasking OS (called Intuition) built in.