Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <6791@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Oct 90 23:40:25 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <298@pdxgate.UUCP> <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> <324@pdxgate.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 21 In article <324@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes: > 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. The thing is, UNIX is multiuser. If I'm running UNIX I don't *want* to reboot it. Like, ever. > 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). "32-bit clean" Mac applications can run under A/UX. > Oh well. I still don't see the advantage. Now sharing files I can > see the desire for. If I wanted to reboot the computer to run a program I'd have bought an IBM-PC. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .