wagner@utcs.uucp (06/06/86)
In article <1210@well.UUCP> rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass) writes: > >Well, now that you can put something on your desk with the power of an Amiga, >all a VAX is GOOD for is netnews, Email and games. Perhaps CBM ought to >devote the VAX just to those functions, and give everyone else an Amiga >or a Sun.... ;-) <rogue> Actually, we're considering porting 'C news' (a much faster and smaller version of netnews) to the amiga after it comes out of Alpha test. Of course, I'm hoping hard disks come along soon, else there isn't much point in running netnews on an amiga. But, at the very least, it would get reasonable response and display speeds, so I don't spend all morning watching my screen dawdle at 1200 baud. Let the 1200 baud stuff happen in the middle of the night. Along those lines, does anyone have a unix-emulation library for the amiga (sort of like MACLibrary). What I'm looking for is a subroutine library that translates unix standard subroutines into the equivalent (where that exists) amiga routines. Now I know that not all of the equivalent routines exist (the file system is different in some important areas, likewise the kernel/exec), but some do, and similar ones exist in many places. I'm not looking for automatic, plug-in-and-run support...just assistance. I seem to recall that some package I saw come across the network had a partial implementation of this (to get the work done), but I don't remember where it was. Kermit? HACK? Anyone remember? Michael