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From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
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Date: 23 Oct 90 06:06:29 GMT
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In article <1410053@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown) writes:
>>> 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

You guys are forgetting something aren't you?  While, it is easy to
go and reboot an Amiga with the three fingered salute, you just don't
got and reset a UNIX box at a whim.  /etc/shutdown


>--
>  Allen Brown  abrown@cv.hp.com or abrown%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
>	    or hplabs!hpcvca!abrown or "Hey you!"
>  Not representing my employer.
>  "Oy yam wot oy yam, an at's all wot oy yam." --- Popeye


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