Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dahlia!pdusek
From: pdusek@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Peter Dusek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A CLI for the ST
Keywords: Minix
Message-ID: <10309@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 88 17:26:16 GMT
References: <93@ucl-cs.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu
Reply-To: pdusek@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Peter Dusek)
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In article <93@ucl-cs.UUCP> susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs writes:
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>Does anyone out there in the big wide world know where I can get a good,
>intelligent, public domain command line interpreter for a 520STM as I
>am rapidly losing patience with GEM. I have come to the conclusion, after
>using both GEM and MacDOS that GEM need replacing.

In addition to Gulam, I would recommend MINIX for the ST.

Minix is a complete V7 Un*x operating system for the ST.  It has most of the
Un*x utilities and tools included and comes with an assembler and C compiler.

Minix uses the Bourne shell for the user-interface.  One possible quirk is that
the Minix operating system is different from TOS, so you cannot run normal ST
programs with it. However, it is a very good replacement for TOS.

Minix sells for about $80 US and comes with complete sources.

An additional bonus is that Minix is fully multitasking.

Peter.
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