UNIX on Amiga 500?

[Bernd Felsche]

In <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 real "magic" you'll need is an MMU!

The AT&T UNIX-PC (aka 3b1, aka PC 7300(?)) had a simple memory
protection circuit which prevented writes to the lowest 4 locations of
memory (if I recall correctly) after reboot. There was no other
hardware memory protection.

Also, *ALL* the device drivers will need to be re-written, a somewhat
ominous task. Not to mention the price of the System V source code.

I suggest that you look at Minix instead.  It's not SysV.

Given enough time and money, you can get UNIX to run on almost as many
hardware platforms as Oracle.
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