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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNIX. I hope not.
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 11:50:23 MET
- In-Reply-To: <anborhh4bpw@moacs11>; from "Waldi Ravens" at Jan 17, 94 04:37:02 pm
-
- Waldi Ravens,
-
- > > So your interpretation of 'making the best out of MiNT' is to make Atari
- > > computers behave as similar to UNIX boxes as possible?
- >
- > Only for those who want it. AFAICT Torsten did not propose to change the
- > kernel in a way that it would not be possible to run Gemdos applications
- > or to use tos fs.
-
- Jesus! Never thought about that! I'd quite like to see some changes, but
- none of them would disable the use of GEM and/or pure GEMDOS applications.
- I only think there's a point where the UNiX compatibility comes to a border
- when you want to run it on TOSFS for example. That's why I suggest that the
- tools and proggies of this to-be-defined standard should not take a great
- care of GEM/GEMDOS `features' like the story with the filenames. This does
- _NEITHER_ imply that it might be impossible to run GEM at all, _NOR_ that
- there mightn't be other kits, which do take care of GEMDOS limitations.
-
- But for those who want it really UNiX-ish, you've got to jump over this
- border.
-
- So you've got me quite right, I think, and most of this has to be seen as
- a comment for the list, and not directly for you... :-)
-
- so long,
- TeSche
- --
- PS: If the above written looks weird, then that's probably because it _IS_.
- Torsten Scherer (Schiller, TeSche...), University of Bielefeld, Germany
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