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- From: tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
- Message-ID: <1303@mwuk.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 13:22:55 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.233528.2386@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.
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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.)? If not, will it be
- > sys V compatible or at least compatible with most Unixs(unlike
- > Minix or some scaled-up version of it).
- >
- > In particular, I am curious to know if it will conform to
- > Sys V standards, support TCP/IP, NFS, and X-Windows. (Or should I
- > just buy a NeXT? :) )
-
- What about getting the BSD sources and porting that to the Falcon. The
- 030 has an MMU, and with a 100-200Mb hard disk on the SCSI port and 4Mb
- of RAM it should be quite possible. I believe BSD has sockets, TCP/IP as
- standard. Not sure of the status of NFS source. X is widely available in
- source.
-
- Nostalgia: I remember using a Unix machine which had a 68000, 320k of
- RAM and a 20Mb hard disk! And we used to get useful work done on it.
-
- Tony.
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