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- From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: MiNT, which way forward...
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:43:51 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
-
- >2) People who are looking to use MiNT as the basis for a cheap substitute
- > for Unix as a development environment and possibly as a multiuser
- > service.
-
- For this, there's only one way to go: POSIX.1 compatibility. If that
- is indeed achieved for the ST, the amount of software running on it
- should increase a lot, anyway.
-
- As far as cheap development goes, Linux already offers a POSIX -
- compliant environment on reasonably cheap hardware. As an example,
- the development of the GNU FORTRAN takes place on a Linux box.
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
- logarithmic diagram.
-