UNIX

[Murray John GILBERT]

In article <Mario_Capellari.3450 at turtle.stgt.sub.org> Mario_Capellari at turtle.stgt.sub.org (Mario Capellari) writes:
>Ist there any Shareware or Public Domain Version of UNIX avaible for the
>Amiga?

You could try minix (by Andy Tanenbaum) availiable from Prentice Hall for
$169 I think. No official support for Hard drives (Amiga MINIX) though there are some
PD ones ? I haven't used Amiga Minix, but I have used IBM minix on 286s
and 386s, its ok I suppose for the UNIX experience and learning OS stuff
and runs quite nicely, but you really need a harddrive to use it well
if not then you need lots of memory so you can put you most commonly
used commands in ram. Changing bits of the Minix Kernel for our comp327
assignment was a real pain if you could only get hold of a 2MB machine
in the lab, It was great when you could get one of the 33MHz 8MB 386
clones.
Another thing IBMminix is all text unless you get the MINI-X graphics thingo
from someone in Canberra, Australia (forget his name and email). MINI-X        
requires a 386 though, I don't have a clue about its compatability with/
transformability to Amiga Minix.

Have a look on comp.os.minix for more inf

ormation

adios,
	Murray


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