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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <2222@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 17:04:07 GMT
References: <1985@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <4079@cbmvax.UUCP> <6811@cup.portal.com> <4135@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <4135@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
> 	We're not talking a professional Unix here.

Oh. I'm sorry. I thought we were...

> Commodore has made no mention of Un*x on a 68000 amiga, has it?

No, but then Commodore is not the only company developing professional
software for the Amiga.

> We're just talking how one would go about porting something like Minix
> to the amiga.

Why? The Amiga system software is in most areas far superior to Minix.
The only thing Minix has that I really miss is the ability to easily
port UNIX code to it. The only feature of UNIX that Minix supports and
can't be easily emulated on the Amiga is the fork system call. So, if AmUnix
doesn't support fork, what's the point?
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