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- From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:19:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.094141.18101@sci.kun.nl>, leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich) writes:
- [ a well-balanced comparison of different machines, including the Falcon,
- deleted to save space ]
- [ on the subject of the Falcon: ]
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- > However: it cannot and will never run
- > unix (at least not for free) with X-Windows/OpenLook
-
- Actually, there's no reason at all that a Falcon couldn't run BSD 4.4 or
- the GNU Hurd, when those become available. All the GNU tools (make, gcc,
- gas, bison, flex, bash) are available now for the ST, and will run
- on the Falcon, so porting the GNU kernel or BSD should be (relatively)
- straightforward.
-
- For that matter, I'm sure that X-Windows could be made to run under
- MiNT/MultiTOS, and I would not be surprised if MultiTOS were eventually
- Posix compliant (please note the qualifiers: I'm not saying that MultiTOS
- *is* or even *will be* Posix compliant, just that I think it *could become*
- Posix compliant).
- --
- Eric R. Smith email:
- Dept. of Mathematics eric.smith@uwo.ca
- University of Western Ontario
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