From: zjoc01@hou.amoco.com (Jack Coats) Subject: Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator? Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 16:16:42 CDT
In article 6051@julian.uwo.ca, uberig@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (Jason Uberig) writes:
>>In article <QUINLAN.93Sep8132001@rose.cs.bucknell.edu> quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu writes:
>>>
>>>uberig@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (Jason Uberig) writes:
>>>
>>>> I browsed the group and didn't see any Atari related stuff. It sure
>>>
>>>You know, I think that Linux should be ported to my refrigerator. I
>>>mean, it already has many built in features similar to Unix and I
>>>think that these facts should make a port simple.
>>>
>>>If anyone knows where I can find someone else wanting to port Linux to
>>>refrigerators, please mail me so we can start work right away!
>>>
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>Back to reality.
>>>
>>>This "port Linux to everything thing phenomenon" is rather silly. Why
>>>on Earth would you want to port it to anything nobody uses anymore? I
>>>don't want to know how slow any Unix would run on my Commodore 128
>>>(yes I still have a working one). I know that we aren't all made of
>>>gold, but 386's are dirt cheap these days.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>--
>>>--------------------------------
>>>Daniel Quinlan
>>>quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu
>>
>>Daniel,
>>
>> I really find it quite obnoxious that whenever someone asks a relatively
>>harmless question someone else (you) has to jump on it. I have as much humour
>>as anyone, but I honestly don't think that it's such a 'silly' thing to
>>consider porting Unix to the Atari line of things. In fact, if someone
>>has the source I'd be willing to hack away at it myself. Now on the point
>>of your Commodore 128 - yep, that system would be hard pressed to run a
>>Unix port. Btw, sure Linux was written for PC computers, but it's a
>>shame that people can't be more open-minded about other systems. I'm not
>>asking you to buy them, but it'd be nice if you gave them a chance. You
>>don't see me bashing the PC line - although, after having worked for IBM
>>I'm sure I could rightfully come up with many gripes.
>>
>> Well, I've wasted enough bandwidth on this so I'll leave it at that. If
>>you feel that you've got something more to say about this please do it by
>>e-mail. No one likes a thread going on about personal disputes.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jason.
>>
>>--
>>+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
>>| Jason Uberig | E-mail: uberig@gfx.engga.uwo.ca |
>>| "Nothing is impossible, just some things are more improbable." |
>>+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
It may not be Linux, but even the vernible COCO from Radio $hark has run
OS9 (a Unix clone) for years...