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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: KickStart disks vs. ROM kernel
Message-ID: <208@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jun-86 14:10:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  6 14:10:13 1986
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Alternate kernel, perhaps?


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Hi,

	Does anybody out there think that it might be practical or
even possible to put something other than Intuition in the kernel
store-- perhaps a Unix kernel?  I like Intuition well enough, but
it might be useful to run Unix software out practicality.
	The model for such an undertaking would seem to be the HP
Unix-based portable computer.

	It would be interesting to know how definitely write-once
to kernel memory is.  For instance, is there a flip-flop which
turns off the write-enable until a hard power-up?  That could be
both an advantage and disadvantage.  It would help protect the
sanity of the (Unix) kernel is the MMU-less environment of the
Amiga.
	I've heard that Unix ports have been accomplished on
MMU-less 68K based machines, but have not seen such a system.  It
seems like it would have a fair chance of flying, as long as one
doesn't try to overextend the Amiga by having multi-user (at the
same time) ambitions.

[	By the way, thanks to everybody that sent mail regarding my
query on the 900.  Sorry about consuming net time with what appears
to have been a very limited prototype machine.  Interesting that
about 50% of the people that saw the 900 loved while the other half
hated it.  I don't think anyone had an indifferent opinion!]

	Bill
	Norheastern Ohio Univ.s' College of Med.
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