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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
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Date: 14 Oct 90 00:21:39 GMT
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In article ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) writes:
>In article <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au writes:
>>
>>...Why not, through the use of a loadable handler, let AmigaOS 
>>share the UNIX partition...
>How are you going to handle protection issues (user/group/other)
>and file ownership (user name space)?

Why with that multi-user resource-based AmigaOS 4.0 you're writing ;)

But seriously, there are a number of technical hurdles....  What to do with
Unix executables is the next question....  What about /dev stuff?  How would
you go about handling that 19meg data-file on your 18meg A3000 anyway? :)

Let's get Unix OUT (anyone know who to bug?), then worry about improving it.


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David Navas                                   navas@sim.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me