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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Various UNIX possibilities. Which would you buy, and why?
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 05:23:53 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <C0EJyI.MtL@digiboard.digibd.com> rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
- > SVR4.0. Problem is C= itself doesn't appear to be doing anything
- > with UNIX. My money for future AmigaUNIX is for some third
- > party to provide it or else C= will outsource it to a third
- > party to port/support. An '040 based AmigaUNIX would be VERY
-
- Either is possible, though C= has said that a rewrite of AmigaUNIX to
- work under the 040's rather limited MMU is being done. It has been a
- while, though, and there are a lot of people wondering what's taking
- them so long.
-
- > nice! Other possibilitys are Mach and maybe some Linux port although
- > I hear 386BSD and Linux have Intel dependancys that would be a bear
- > to deal with on a big endian architecture.
-
- I've heard Linux is pretty hard that way. Dunno about 386BSD, though
- it's likely. :)
-
- Greg
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