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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiganix
Message-ID: <358@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 23:43:13 EST
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.358
Posted: Fri Jan 17 23:43:13 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 05:00:35 EST
References: <1319@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
Lines: 22
Keywords: Amiga, AmigaDos, Unix, portability
Summary: 


I posted a "dumb terminal" program a while back.  Using such a program,
an Amiga can be a terminal on a Unix Computer (unix in a window on the
Amiga?!?) and AmigaDos applications in other windows (isn't multi-tasking
fun?).  An enhanced dumb terminal program could (in theory) intercept
character sequences from the RS232 line, much like the way ANSI escape
sequences are, and other neat things can be done - unix programs can open
windows on the Amiga, unix programs can read the mouse coordinates from
the Amiga, file sharing (crude but effective), remote batch service,
multiple unix cli's (1 per window), multiple users signed on at the
same time on the same amiga (why not?), redirection of unix IO through
the translator and narrator devices (unix can talk?), and more.  This sounds
like Amiganix to me.  Your ls command for the Amiga should have a switch
to get it's filenames from unix instead of from AmigaDos.  Unix programs
might actually require porting of some of AmigaDos routines, like OpenWindow,
OpenScreen, and 400 more.  If Unix had a standard terminal with the 
capabilities of the Amiga, its programs would be less generic and would have
a real nice interface

It's already (almost) been done - the AT&T 7300 PC (If you haven't seen
one yet, itis the closest thing around to the Amiga [amazingly close] I
have seen).