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Article #1028Re: Unix for 520st? Please let it be!
From: fnf
Date: Thu, 29 May 1986 05:47
Date: Thu, 29 May 1986 05:47
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In article <1101@ellie.UUCP> mesches@ellie.UUCP (Scott Mesches) writes:
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>I origionally bought my 520st cause I was told AT&T was porting UNIX to it.
Wasn't this discussed to death months ago? Didn't it turn out that what
actually happened is that AT&T announced they were looking at using the
520 as a *terminal* for a Unix system and the news got rather distorted?
I doubt you will ever see a working, reliable Unix for the *current* offerings
from either Atari or Commodore. The disadvantages of running Unix as a
general purpose OS without memory protection are just too great. Though of
course an ST running a Unix derived kernel and fully debugged, well-behaved
"canned" applications is certainly doable, the question is, is it worth
it?
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