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- From: alien@clinet.fi (Risto Juvonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
- Message-ID: <1hak7eINNiqo@clinet.fi>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:03:42 GMT
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- ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- :
- : I wouldn't hold your breath. Linux is definitely a quality piece of
- : work and I have briefly used it, but the author, Linus Torvalds, has
- : stated on numerous occasions that it is very 3/486 dependent. Rumour
- : has it that an Amiga port is being contemplated, but this is the
- : first time I have heard about an Atari port. If you want cheap unix,
- : a pc clone is probably your best bet at this point.
- :
- Well, if I relly need to go with unix, I get cheap PC and run linux
- on it or sell my TT and buy Silicon. After all, with same hardware PC
- would be even more expensive that Indigo. But I'll probably wait a
- year or so to find out which would be the best choice: pc isn't any
- problem-free system with any operating system, I just think it would
- save me a lot of time if I go with _real_ unix-system. But I've to
- see, what atari can give as in a year, if there is high-end 040, I go
- with that.
-
- : Cheers,
- :
- : Chris
- :
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