Amiga UNIX on GVP 040?
21-Aug-94 02:21:34
Sb: #87910-Amiga UNIX on GVP 040?
Fm: Mike Hobart 75136,1153
To: Jerry DelVecchio 75300,3465
The Commodore Amiga Unix (AMIX) was written for the 68030 CPand MMU
instruction set. Since CBM decided not to pursue Unix any further,
they did not develop a version which will work with the 68040. Since
the probs are at the CPU/MMU level, there's no way to fix it.
There are two alternatives, there are free Unix clones, NetBSD and
Linux, both derived from BSD-Unix, which are under active
development. NetBSD has seen much activity of late and they are just
about to release the formal version 1.0 and make it available via
CD-ROM in addition to the usual FTP access. Fred Fish's Amiga
Library Services (and undoubtedly others) plan on carrying the CD.
There has also been a spurt of activity of late with Amiga Linux.
I've got NetBSD running on my Amiga 2000 with a GVP Combo 40 board and
the usual gang of peripherals.