seebachp@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Craig D. Rice, St. Olaf College) (08/18/89)
Mr Seebach: If you could post this on comp.sys.atari.st for me I would greatly appreciate it. Once again, this does not need to be anonymous. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ quoted from jward's message on comp.sys.atari.st: >I am coming into a bit of money and am thinking about upgrading my ST >520 FM. I currently have two single sided drives and 512K. I'd like >to have a little Unix style system on my hands. I've dabbled with OSK >and am a rabid Unix fan so I know and use multitasking daily. Here's >what I'd like to know: >What multitasking kernels are available and how good are they? I use >gulam unless I have to resort to GEM and I've heard that MX2 and Gulam >work together? I tried MX2 to no avail once, is it better? >How stable/good is Minix? Does GNU stuff work under it at all? >I have a friend who is a Unix system administrator and has OSK with a >hard drive and he says that I am such a rabid Unixer that I would not >be satisfied with OSK. What do you think? Is OSK a reasonable >alternative? >RAM upgrades? I am not a hardware techie, so should I get the >solderless variety? Which one? >And at last, what about a hard-drive? Which one should I get? >Let me know, eh? >James E. Ward >f0057@uafhp.uucp Use this address or bounce! This is my first message on this message base. By the way, messages take a week to get to this site, so if someone posted answers to this question in the last week, please be tolerant of me. Hi everyone! I am interested in doing more-or-less the same thing. I have a 1040st with an exernal 3.5" drive. I am waiting for the new 68030 atari computer to be released (last time I checked they were calling it a TT). A 68000 is fundamentally not meant to do multitasking. I am one of those power users you hear about. I am using an XT at work and hitting my head on the keyboard, for I could utilize about 4 of them without any of them waiting for keyboard input (lots of number crunching involved in this job). That is why I have been eagerly waiting for the release of the TT. Does anyone have some recent info about it? (such as, is it still planned for a september relase? how much will it run for? how much will unix cost for it, and where can I get software for the TT version of unix, etc etc). Also, I know PC-Ditto II, if it has finally been released, is still in its early stages, but will there be any problems hooking it up to a TT? Will it still run at the same speed as if it were on an ST? Or will there be a special version for the TT? PS: To Greg Lindahl: Hi Greg! Small world, isn't it? -- ---------------------------------S. Alan Ezust------------------------------- | "Depeche Modem" \ Disclaimer: I frequently make stupid typos.| | depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca / The probability of forgetting something is | | McGill Univeristy CompSci \ directly proportional to.... to.... uh.... | | Montreal, Quebec, Canada / If it jams, force it. If it breaks, fine. | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------