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- From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.103006.11413@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 10:30:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.233528.2386@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <1992Dec14.233528.2386@midway.uchicago.edu>
- coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >Does anyone know if the ST Falcon will be capable of running
- >the Unix Sys 5(AT&T or SCO, etc.)?
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- I am hearing rumours that some people are porting Linux, a free Unix popular
- on the PC, to the ST and Amiga platforms. I doubt it would be up to much on
- a 68000 but on a 68030 in a TT or a Falcon it could be quite neat. I have
- seen it running X on a 486 PC just fine.
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