Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!joyce!ames!killer!tness7!swbatl!jackson!egranthm 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 Lines: 19 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. -- Ewan Grantham (601) 354-6454 ext.358 ...!uunet!nuchat!amyerg!egranthm or {pyramid or bellcore or tness..}!swbatl!jackson!egranthm I'm not responsible for my bosses, and vice-versa