Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <6875@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 Oct 90 12:30:49 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <1410053@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <1990Oct23.060629.6537@engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 In article <1990Oct23.060629.6537@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: > 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 You BSD heretic. /etc/init 0! More to the point, I'm not talking about a full UNIX in a box under AmigaOS. I'm talking about a UNIX emulation in a hosted environment. UNIX tasks would be AmigaOS tasks with extra information attached. The UNIX file system would be mapped onto the Amiga file system (using the comment field for that extra UNIX file-system info). A unix.library (or posix.library). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .