Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!easy!lron From: lron@easy.hiam (Dwight Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 23:01:19 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <298@pdxgate.UUCP> <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> <324@pdxgate.UUCP> Lines: 33 >In article <324@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes: >peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > [junk deleted] >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. > Why, I wouldn't want to reboot the machine everytime I want to run PageStream. >>> You would either have to make a virtual Amiga running under Unix (can >>> you say slow?) > Yes, but it's running under Unix can you say Protected Mode and Virtual Storage? People are asking for both of these capabilites and this way we wouldn't have to wait till the 21st century. Besides, even if it is 5 Times slower running an AmigaDos Application under Amiga Unix on a 25Mhz 3000 it will still run faster than it runs on an Amiga 2000. >awful). Oh well. I still don't see the advantage. Now sharing files I can >see the desire for. Well, the Advantage I see is that it will give users some software for the O/S until the developers can catch up, and if it gives AmigaDos applications the Ability to run in an Enviroment with REAL Virtual Memory it would be a very powerful selling point as well. I do however see a real problem with security with this type of compatiblity option. Maybe make it a SU command?? -- -Dwight Hubbard, |-Kaneohe, HI -USENET: uunet.uu.net!easy!lron |-Genie: D.Hubbard1 lron@easy.hiam |-GT-Power: 029/004