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- From: leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.084342.26269@sci.kun.nl>
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Sep11.183836.12212@zooid.guild.org> <1992Sep8.232703.16020@zooid.guild.org> <1992Sep8.233555.16515@zooid.guild.org> <1992Sep10.110919.17361@sci.kun.nl> <18rkrdINN877@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Sep12.094141.18101@sci.kun.nl> <1992Sep12.141903.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 08:43:42 GMT
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- In <1992Sep12.141903.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) writes:
-
- >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: ]
-
- >> 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.
-
- True, if a port of unix is done then it surely will run great on a falcon,
- but porting linux will take a lot of time and I don't know if the
- user community for falcon is big enough to support such a development.
- If it will be ported (together with X) on the other hand, it will be
- a superb choice for me and other people looking for cheap unix
- stattions, that can also run great atari st software.
-
- >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).
- >--
-
- If I could have X running with MultiTos I wouldnt't need unix :-)
- Neat idea ...
-
-
- >Eric R. Smith email:
- >Dept. of Mathematics eric.smith@uwo.ca
- >University of Western Ontario
-
- Bye, Leon
- leonp@cs.kun.nl
- leonp@sci.kun.nll
-