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- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 16:31:24 +0100
- From: Christian Lynbech <lynbech@daimi.aau.dk>
- Message-Id: <199401171531.AA01863@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>
- To: Annius.Groenink@let.ruu.nl
- In-Reply-To: <199401171253.AA17112@ruulot.let.ruu.nl> (message from Annius Groenink on Mon, 17 Jan 1994 13:53:30 +0100 (MET))
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNIX. Annius hopes not. But I do!
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-
- > Well HOPEFULLY it is not purely an attempt to get a LINUX-smell-alike
- > without having to buy a 486?
-
- To me, yes it is (sort of).
-
- I do not have the money to buy an 486 box right now, but I still like
- UNIX.
-
- A MiNT based pretty-close-to-UNIX clone, is more likely to be a proper
- match for my trusty but humble Atari STE, I think. A port of Linux
- to 68k architectures are likely to be an option only for those with
- falcons and TTs and accelerator cards, of which I have neither, plus
- pretty much in the vapour category for the time being.
-
- I think that this whole discussion started as a realisation of the
- fact that we are a group of people feeling the same way about UNIX, so
- we might as well start working a little more in the same direction. We
- do not want to force anybody else to this specific view, but would
- like to ensure UNIX-compability as an option for the interested.
-
- I regard usability higher than feeling atari specific. I do not want
- UNIX compability because I think UNIX is some sort of divine
- revelation, but there are many programs I know from my time as a UNIX
- user, that I would like to use on my atari, and making the atari
- UNIX-like is a lot easier than porting all the many programs. I just
- want enough functionality to make this process easy, and we are close,
- sure enough.
-
- I'll hang my hat whereever my .emacs is, at any time :-)
-
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- Christian Lynbech | Hit the philistines three times over the
- office: R0.33 (phone: 3217) | head with the Elisp reference manual.
- email: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk | - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
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