Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!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: <6918@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 28 Oct 90 20:44:49 GMT References: <6875@sugar.hackercorp.com> <6653@chorus.fr> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 20 In article <6653@chorus.fr> ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) writes: > From article <6875@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva): > > 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 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > And what about security, bring the system up under AmigaDOS and change the > comment. What *about* security? If you have direct access to the hardware there is no such thing. It's no different than booting your UNIX System V/386 box under DOS and running Norton Utilities... (not to mention that the system isn't brought up "under UNIX" or "under AmigaOS"... what I'm talking about is running UNIX pretty much in a console.device window). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .