Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ingr!infonode!palmermg From: palmermg@infonode.ingr.com (Michael G. Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <1990Oct17.141554.6314@infonode.ingr.com> Date: 17 Oct 90 14:15:54 GMT References: <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> <324@pdxgate.UUCP> Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL Lines: 38 In article lron@easy.hiam (Dwight Hubbard) writes: >>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 CAn you say 'several virtual pcs running on one '386 machine'? >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. UNIX has VM and protected modes, but AmigaDOS doesn't. So unix may be protected from rampant amiga applications, but the amiga apps still aren't protected from each other -- unless you run multiple copies of AmigaDOS - one for each application you want to protect from each other. I guess that you would also need multiple copies of all utilities that you also liked to have running in the Amiga background...... can you say slower still, and a memory/swap space hog! >-Dwight Hubbard, |-Kaneohe, HI >-USENET: uunet.uu.net!easy!lron |-Genie: D.Hubbard1 > lron@easy.hiam |-GT-Power: 029/004 Michael Palmer mpalmer.zaphod.b11@ingr.com uunet!ingr!b11!zaphod!mpalmer