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#Seeking Amiga GNU

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#7480From: Andy CampbellFeb 9, 1991 4:38 PM
i have a very strange question… i've seen tons of ports of gnu utilities for the amiga, and i began wondering if the fsf (or anyone else) has attempted to write a gnu kernel for the amiga, or if anyone plans on writing one. i posted this question on usenet and got two or three responses saying they had never heard of such a thing, but i figured i'd see if anyone here had. one other thing i thought i might do is talk directly to fsf. however, not having a postal or email address or a phone number for them is a problem. any info on these subjects would be greatly appreciated.
#7483From: jake edgeFeb 9, 1991 8:13 PM
Andy, As I understand, GNU is waiting on Carnegie-Mellon to finish their non-AT&T Mach kernel and they plan on incorporating that into GNU. At last report, CM is still working on Mach (or perhaps their lawyers are trying to figure out how to make it AT&T lawsuit-proof). Once that is done, I would imagine that it could be ported to the 'miga fairly easily as one of their target processors was supposedly the 680×0. I don't have an email address (can't find it in my GNU EMACS manual :-(, but their snail mail address is: Free Software Foundation 675 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Hope this helps! jake
#7551From: Andy CampbellFeb 11, 1991 5:59 PM
jake thanx. i'll send a snailgram to them and see what they say 🙂 —–andy