Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!cc From: cc@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.cbm,net.micro Subject: UNIX on Atari ST or Commodore Amiga? Message-ID: <6262@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 13:47:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6262 Posted: Sun Jul 7 13:47:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:06:06 EDT Organization: UCLA Computer Club Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.micro.atari:925 net.micro.cbm:1516 net.micro:10962 With the advent of relatively cheap read-only storage (i.e the CD ROM), wouldn't it now be practical to run UNIX on some of these cheap-but-powerful personal computers that are coming down the pike? 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. Does anybody know if this is in the cards?