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- From: as@prg.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Minix/Linux
- Message-ID: <4293@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 11:39:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.132246.12110@bnr.co.uk>
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- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- >What are the possibilities of getting Linux running on the Archimedes,
- >would anyone that has attempted to port Minix like to comment ?
- I'd say Linux would be *very* hard to port to anything. It was explicitly
- written from the ground up for the Intel 386/486 architecture. It does
- lots of things efficiently but non-portably by using features of the
- MMU CPU etc etc. Much better bets would be BSD NET2 (or even 386BSD)
- or Mach.
-
- WHo knows one day Acorn might see the light and bring out a sensibly
- priced unbundled and no nappy-changing-support version of its BSD port?
- After all who really wants X/Desktop Motif (blah blah) + Norcroft
- when GCC and X11R5 could serve as well or better and would allow users
- to tap into the huge pool of expertise in these things.
-
- Mind you, given the prevalance of 4M Arcs an implementation with
- shared libraries would be a huge leap forward and that would
- require real (expensive) work on BSD (as far as I know).
-
- Andrew
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