From: Arno Griffioen <arno.griffioen@ieee.org>
To: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Atari System V media and books?
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:53:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200207115317.GI15253@ancienthardware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2002061550320.676@neener.bl.org>
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 05:15:23PM -0600, Michael Parson wrote:
> > Never got that really verified, but I do know that at the time the
> > lack of support for the m68k ABI was a big hurdle for acceptance.
>
> *shrug* Atari UNIX and Amiga UNIX seem close enough that some stuff
> compiled on Atari works on the Amiga.
>
> Out of curiosity, how much m68k SysV software was out there?
A decent amount, at least for basic productivity software (accounting, etc.)
and compilers and such. Nothing spectacular, but would have given at least
an initial library of basic tools.
> > The SVR4 Amiga UNIX used CDE and all bits for the X11 environment, so
> > the binaries should all be there.
>
> The install bits that have survived and escaped onto the Internet have
> X11R4 with XView/OpenLook, no Motif/CDE. There was a port of X11R5 to
> it that supported some of the newer graphics cards, but still no Motif.
Ah.. Yes you are right.. De distribution tape only has XView. CDE I probably
only saw on an in-house demo of.
I remember it was terribly slow though, especially with the limited RAM
capacity at the time of max 16MB and a 25Mhz '030, which was already showing
it's age by now and should really have been an '040 with the option
of (much) more RAM.
Bye, Arno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 22:48 Chris Hanson
2020-01-18 23:19 ` Michael Parson
2020-02-05 23:29 ` Chris Hanson
2020-02-06 3:44 ` Michael Parson
2020-02-06 3:54 ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-06 15:35 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-06 15:50 ` Michael Parson
2020-02-06 17:58 ` Arno Griffioen
2020-02-06 23:15 ` Michael Parson
2020-02-07 11:53 ` Arno Griffioen [this message]
2020-02-06 4:02 ` Henry Bent
2020-02-06 5:05 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-18 23:27 ` Arthur Krewat
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