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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <360@pdxgate.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 90 07:14:50 GMT
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perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley) writes:

>In article <298@pdxgate.UUCP>, griffith@eecs (Michael Griffith) writes:

>>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.

>Did anyone say we would get source code for Unix?

You miss the point. The original author stated that 70 megs _were_ already
used. If I stick any source code on in addition to that (NetHack, X windows,
whatever...) I can probably fill the remaining 30 megs in a very short
amount of time as is. Therefor, it is not likely to use a 100 meg HD for both
Amiga OS and Unix (besides, you could just use partitions and have file
transfer programs between the two). On the other hand, I have come to the
realization that an Amiga OS emulator would be nice to prevent uneccesary
(sp?) reboots. However, how would this work with a game, for example? It
seems to me that either the hardware would have to be (a) shared, (b) owned
exclusively, or (c) emulated on some end. It seems that each of these
possible solutions would risk machine crashes or very bad speed reductions.
Sissy Mac software doesn't have to worry about such things, after all. :-)
I haven't found out about the new Mac machines yet, so no flames please.

(I reserve the right to dump on the new Macs after I find out completely
what is involved. Of course, it won't change my opinions anyways...)


| 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. |