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From: spear@locus.com (Brad Spear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (Commodore read this !!!)  A few enhancements to the Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <13729@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 26 Jul 90 19:36:33 GMT
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
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In article (murfle) cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) wrote:
>In article <1248@winnie.fit.edu> ( Charles Stockman) writes:
>>
>>A person that I met is very interested in the Amiga 3000, but would like a 
>>few changes made.
>>2) He would like to be able to run Amiga dos under unix
>
>Why? I presume it is for the "cheaper" software. Why not run AmigaDOS 
>instead? What would UNIX buy him in this case?

Well, you're right.  He could run AmigaDOS for the AmigaDOS applications.  The
UNIX platform (IMHO) is somewhat nicer to use, however.  Of course, you can
boot UNIX when UNIX is desired, and boot AmigaDOS when that is required.  The
problem is that every UNIX that I have ever used, has required a shutdown
sequence, to verify that everything was hunky-dory.  Now-a-days, this is a
relatively quick and painless procedure, even for systems with large amounts
of disk space, but it is still a hassle.  And of course, interprocess
communication between programs on different operating systems is impossible
(well, it *could* be done, but it's impractical).

It would be *really nice* (and that's what we're talking about here, isn't
it?), to have AmigaDOS applications run under the UNIX system.  Whether the
real-time performance is affected for the AmigaDOS applications, depends on
whether Commodore has added any extensions to SVR4.  I think I remember
seeing that it hadn't, but it hasn't added AmigaDOS as a 'guest' yet, either.

The real solution of course, is for all the applications to be written for
the UNIX system, but that may take awhile. :-<

Brad
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Brad Spear				Locus Computing Corporation
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