7 Feb
2020
7 Feb
'20
5:53 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 05:15:23PM -0600, Michael Parson wrote:
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.
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.
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? 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.