6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
7:26 p.m.
On Mar 6, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Doc Shipley wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Oh man, I would *love* to have AmigaUnix running on an Amiga... that is
one VERY difficult thing to find. You know, Unix ran for years on very
"low-level" hardware and has usually been very snappy. Take a look at
the original NeXT machines... the fastest NeXT was a 33 MHz 68040 and
it was very responsive. I have an old AT&T box that runs AT&T Unix
and I know it can't be faster than 30 MHz, and yet it runs Oracle!
Mark
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:08:09 +0000, Gordon JC
Pearce
<gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
This case aside, though, I basically agree with
Tony's assertion that
one should run a classic OS on classic hardware - why put NetBSD on an
Amiga when one can run AmigaDOS? It takes something out of the
'classicalness', IMHO.
Or Amiga UNIX....
I did get Amiga UNIX(R) v2.1 installed from tape and running on an
A3000 last week, but the A2500 spits a kernel panic late in the kernel
load during install. I didn't have time to do much debugging at all,
but the v2.01, v2.03, and v2.1 boot/root floppies died at the same
point.
It's an interesting SysVR4 implementation, to say the least. :) On
a loaded A3000 (16MB ZIP RAM, 2MB chip RAM) it's also surpisingly
snappy.