GNU Development Possible?

[Rodney Ricks]

In article <BURLEY.91Jan9081734 at geech.ai.mit.edu> burley at geech.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
>Is Amiga UNIX going to be sufficiently solid to enable me to get
>GNU EMACS, GNU CC, and other GNU software up and running, and to

>From what I've read about Amiga UNIX, it's a complete implementation of
UNIX System V, Release 4.  I've also read that GNU CC comes with it.

How solid will it be?  I sure HOPE it will be a solid, stable system.  It
doesn't look like they're doing a rush job on it, they've been working on
a UNIX based Amiga for a LONG time, first with SVR3.2 (I believe they sold
some of these systems in Europe, but not in the U.S.), then with SVR4.

Some of the beta testers out there could probably answer that question
much better than I can.

>Although I don't have much $$ to spend, I do have both a Mac SE/30
>with 8MB/80MB and a Mac SE with 2.5MB/20MB, and could sell either
>one or, if absolutely necessary and Mac emulation were available
>on the Amiga, both.

Mac emulation is available on the Amiga.  You'll probably get many messages
about AMax (and AMax II), which, from what I've heard, is an excellent
Mac emulator.  One problem is that Apple is getting very cautious about
their ROMS, which you need to use the emulator.

>I'm interested only in 68030-based machines, as powerful as
>possible 
>                   What are the available high-end models?  Although
>I've been told that the "fastest" Amiga is a model that is not the
>high-end but enhanced with an accelerator, I don't know how well
>this would work with Unix and such.

The Amiga 3000 is available in 16 and 25 Mhz models.  The memory can be
expanded up to 18MB on the motherboard, and (if such high-capacity boards
were available) up to about 1 gigabyte by the RAM expansion slots.

I forget the exact specs on the Amiga 2500 (it's an expanded 2000), so I
won't say anything else about it.

The Amiga 2000 can be expanded by third parties to run at up to 50MHz,
although the expansion slots with still be the slower, 16-bit slots,
as opposed to the faster, 32-bit slots on the A3000.

Some companies are also working on 68040 boards.

I don't know about the availability of UNIX on the 2500 and on 2000's
with third-party accelerator boards.

>James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley at ai.mit.edu


Rodney Ricks

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