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From: dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A/UX on AMAX
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Date: 10 Jan 91 06:03:09 GMT
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A strange thought hit me today when I was reading the BYTE article on A/UX and
about how it's not worth it if you only need UNIX.

This thought (which is mine, and what it is too (old Monty Python joke)), was
whether it would be possible to somehow run A\UX on the AMAXII emulator.
Granted, I can't figure out why someone would want to, but it would be an
interesting thing to try.

My first impression is that it would not be possible, sue to my assuming that
the kernel bangs directly on the Mac hardware, but it later occured to me
that they could be running UNIX as a layer on top of the Mac ROMS (which
don't get removed when it is installed).  I know that this was done on
the C=128 with CP/M (I know, different bag of worms), and I don't see why this
can't be done with the Mac.  After all, finder is still around and
is said to "coexist" with X-Windows, this implies some sort of access to the Mac
ROMS.  Of course, this is a BIG performance hit, but remember, this is Apple.

Just some thoughts....

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Colin DeWolfe
dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca