From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error? |
Date: | 2010-04-13 00:57:52 |
Message-ID: | 201004130057.o3D0vqI11187@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > But I do remember there was a set of libs called ixemul (http://aminet.net/package/dev/gg/ixemul-bin) that a lot of people used to port unix apps to the Amiga with, probably not enough to port postgres though.
>
> Ah, I wondered if there might not be such a thing. However, according
> to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixemul.library it doesn't have support
> for fork(), which would have been a complete showstopper back in the day
> (though since the Windows port in 8.0 we can live without it). So that
> pretty much kills any thought that it might've once worked and we just
> forgot.
I have removed the Amiga support mention for Postgres from Wikipedia:
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