Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <9569@uwm.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 00:22:48 GMT References: <1991Feb14.171425.6800@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 43 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article <1991Feb14.171425.6800@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva): > In article <9552@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: > On running AmigaOS under UNIX: > >> You mean like how A/UX runs Finder/MacOS programs under it? > > Or how VPix runs MS-DOS programs (including Windows). > But isn't that pretty buggy too? From what I've heard, there isn't a whole hell of a lot you can run on that.. of course, this is just rhetoric. I've never really seen it run... But it is what the grapevine is juicing these days..... :) > I think it'd be easier in some ways, harder in others. Amiga programs > tend not to play silly-buggers with pointers or depend on busy-waiting, > but they do demand more in the way of response from the O/S. > Yeah... And I think a lot of people would be very disappointed in it if it didn't have that "instantaneous response" that so many amiga-users have grown to love (I being one of them)... But even so, I would understand why it would slow down.... But how would you create a real-time environment like AmigaOS INSIDE of unix, and still keep it multitasking? Can you put a real-time environment _INSIDE_ of a non-real-time (I cant think of the word for unix multitasking... it's something to do with tasks being different..) >> I don't understand how you would implement it w/o putting it into >> the Unix Kernel... And that might be a no-no if AT&T didn't approve.... > > Run AmigaOS as a process. Okay, but could you run processes UNDER AmigaOS inside of AmigaOS and not affect the outside world? And wouldn't this take gaping amounts of overhead? AmigaOS itself is a consortium of cooperating tasks... It would mean creating an environment within an (almost) opposed environment... > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | Amigas, amigas everywhere, but not a one can think... | Where's an AI when you need one??? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------