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From: egranthm@jackson.UUCP (Ewan Grantham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Summary: So can you...?
Message-ID: <266@jackson.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 13:29:05 GMT
References: <1985@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <4079@cbmvax.UUCP> <6811@cup.portal.com> <2222@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Mississippi Dept. of Corrections
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In article <2222@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 
> 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. 
 
So, does this mean that using minix one could easily port something like
netnews, or are we talking being easier to rewrite programs that will
then croak along for awhile?

Seems to me that simply supporting the fork function would not be enough
to make it "easy" to port code, but then maybe it depends on your
definition of easy.


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