Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!griffith From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <324@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 13 Oct 90 06:42:54 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <298@pdxgate.UUCP> <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 30 peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <298@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes: >> As for running AmigaOS and Unix at the same time, I can't personally think >> of a reason why you would want to. >There are a lot more software packages available for AmigaOS. I didn't mean that you wouldn't want to run AmigaOS at all, just not at the same time. There's no reason why you couldn't choose which to boot under. >> You would either have to make a virtual Amiga running under Unix (can >> you say slow?) >Hey, Apple can do this on the Mac... and the Mac system software is pretty >screwed up. Really? Hmmm. I would think it would be hard to run A/UX (or AU/X or whatever) and the Mac OS at the same time due to the nature of Macintosh ROM calls and whatnot (according to my 68030 reference guide it's pretty awful). Oh well. I still don't see the advantage. Now sharing files I can see the desire for. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. | Michael Griffith | If I had an opinion it certainly | | griffith@eecs.ee.pdx.edu | wouldn't be the same one as | | ...!tektronix!psueea!eecs!griffith | Portland State University anyways. |