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- From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Unix and the Falcon and the TT etc...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.105828.14973@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:58:28 GMT
- References: <92352.190235SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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- In article <92352.190235SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >... I have absolutely no confidence that Atari will
- >ever develop a unix port, and I see no reason why I should wait for that.
-
- They did, and Unisoft was given a Falcon. Then Atari canned the whole project
- for purely political reasons (sheer incompetence, if you ask me).
-
- Unisoft did the job, and was paid for it, and gave the finished thing to Atari.
- When Atari didn't release ASV to the general public, Unisoft was so unhappy
- that they even thought about distributing ASV on their own. I can guess why
- they didn't do it after all :-(
-
- >To the experts out there: just what WOULD it take to write Unix for the ST?
- >Seriously...
-
- I would say: take BSD4.4 "lite", it is supposed to have a lot of Motorola
- support already, take missing things from 386bsd when possible, and write the
- HW-specific things. I would love to do that, but it would take me ages. And,
- I'm not sure if I should get a TT just for this.
-
- -- Volker
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