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- From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
- Subject: Re: Unix and the New Amigas
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.034934.4870@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
- References: <79600@ut-emx.uucp> <38011@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 03:49:34 GMT
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- In <38011@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rblewitt@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) writes:
-
- >In article <79600@ut-emx.uucp> sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin) writes:
- >>
- >>Does anyone know if Commodore's Unix is going to run on any of the
- >>new '040 machines - specifically, the A4000 and the 3000T '040?
- >>
- >>Also, did WOC produce any comment from Commodore on their
- >>commitment to or future plans for Unix?
-
- >Since getting Unix to run on an 040 would take a large ammount of
- >work, they were thinking of doing the port directly from the new
- >(4.2 or 4.3, I forgot which) version of the Unix kernal. When such
- >a beast will come out, who knows.
-
- I dunno about the "large amount of work" to which you refer.
- As far as I recall, only some MMU and FPU changes are
- required, so the low-level kernel routines to do this would
- be candidates for change. (Exception/interrupt handling may
- also have subtle changes, which could influence device
- drivers ... but then, I've never done anything that low
- down....)
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