UNIX on Amiga 500?

[David S. Herron]

In article <9103120946.56 at rmkhome.UUCP> rmk at rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>In article <1991Mar9.231842.20395 at jack.sns.com> jtanner at jack.sns.com (Jason Tanner) writes:
>>    A friend told me it is possible to run UNIX (Sys V) On an Amiga 500 since
>>it uses a 68000 processor like an AT&t Unix-PC.  This is an exciting prospect!
>>Is this true? If so what company manufactures it?
>
>The only available UNIX for the Amiga is SYS V Release 4.  It requires hardware
>memory management, which the 500 does not have.
>
>If you want UNIX on your Amiga, you will have to upgrade.


Well.. there is MINIX, and it runs on stock 500's and 2000's.  (or so the
box claimed, I doubt it's using any speshul features of the newer
machines meaning that it "should" work on a 1000...)

HT Electronics had Minix v1.5 in the store ($130) when I was there
a few minutes ago.  

Minix is V7 compatible which means that it's pretty darn stripped down.
On the other hand it *is* the last version of Unix which was small
enough to be understandable by someone interested in learning OS internals.
Minix is a ground-up rewrite and is fully described in Tannenbaum's book
on Operating Systems.  The Amiga Minix packages includes disks with binaries
on it and source listings (not source on disk ;-( ... sigh!).  It includes
scads and scads of utility programs & a C compiler.  Doesn't mention UUCP!

For Real True Blue Unix you gotta go with a 3000 or 2000+26{2,3}0 ...
(And the last hasn't been verified as an Officially Supported Platform
for Amiga Unix, just that some internal C= people use that as their
Unix machine rather than a 3000)


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