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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Windows on Amiga...
Message-ID: <1388@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 25 Nov 90 19:11:51 GMT
References: <9011220510.AA19265@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <9011220510.AA19265@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David") writes:
>	Do you realize you are talking about what is essentially an operating
>system?  Do you realise it takes GOBS of memory to run Windows?  Do you realize
>you are talking about having the equivalent of a SECOND Kickstart layered on
>top of the current one, but in RAM? 

Well, windows for the IBM PC needs to be a complete operating system since
it has to add a lot of functionality to the plain MS-DOS to allow f.e.
multi-tasking (somehow) and interclient communcation.

The AmigaOS does provide these services already, so the only thing you'd
need would be a translation library that converts Windows calls into
AmigaOS calls (and maybe some graphics data too).

But then, I don't think that this would be valuable.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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