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From: Andrew C Bulhak acb@cs....
Subject: Plan9 for Amiga ??
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 14:05:06 -0400

[M G Berberich]
> 
> Is there an Amiga version of plan9??
> [ Not yet. Does the Amiga have a decent MMU these days? - mod ]

Higher-end Amigas (the 2500 and 3000, I think, and perhaps the 2000)
have a MMU; there is a port of Linux to these machines (I don't know what
state it's in at the moment though). A port of Plan 9 to such Amigas 
would be possible (how much demand there'd be for it is another question,
but if there's at least one die-hard Amiga hacker with a Plan 9 CD and
some spare time, there's enough ;-) ).

Another nice thing is that, once an Amiga port exists, an Atari port 
would be trivial. The Amiga and Atari versions of Linux/68k run off the
same binaries, and perhaps even dual-purpose kernel images.

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