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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
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Date: 11 Oct 90 07:09:14 GMT
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ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes:

>So here is a small suggestion that I submit to the net for
>consideration.  Why not, through the use of a loadable handler, let AmigaOS 
>share the UNIX partition.  The user's perception of the UNIX FS is similar
>enough to the AmigaOS FS (file names etc), and I can see few problems
>writing an I-node handler to run under AmigaOS.

I can think of no reason why this cannot be done, fundamentally (although,
it would involve a bit of work by someone...), yet I doubt that there is
much practical reason as far as the 100 Mb hard drive, because with 70 megs
already used up... Well, Unix source code and executables tend to be fairly
large. Remember, they haven't stuck any applications on it at this point.
So, although such a utility would be nice I don't think it is neccesary for
that particular reason.

As for running AmigaOS and Unix at the same time, I can't personally think
of a reason why you would want to. The difficulties would be tremendous to
say the least, and if I was running Unix I doubt I would ever use AmigaOS.
(Note: this isn't a flame on AmigaOS, but let's face it, Unix has had more
time to develop and has become more refined, although it's also too d*mn
big) You would either have to make a virtual Amiga running under Unix (can
you say slow?) or completely remap memory back and forth while swapping
between to operating systems (slow as well, plus remember that the AmigaOS
doesn't support virtual memory yet which would probably be a definite
neccesity).


| Michael Griffith                     | If I had an opinion it certainly   |
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