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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
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Date: 23 Oct 90 00:59:24 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>> Wouldn't it be easier to run UNIX under AmigaDOS instead of the other way 
>> around?

> Yes. Next question?

> Oh, why aren't they doing that?
> -- 
> Peter da Silva.   `-_-'

My guess: memory protection.  If Unix was a process under AmigaDOS
wouldn't any AmigaDOS process be able to write into any Unix memory?
If so, that would be totally unacceptable.
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