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From: hansb@ariel.unm.edu (Richard Harris PSYCHOLOGY)
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Subject: Re: Amiga: Which replacment OS?
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Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 01:52:26 EDT
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here is a small thought...

can you imagine taking the kickstart disk and redoing SOME of the code
on it so that you could EMULATE or OPERATE in IBM or C64 or MAC or OS/9
or ETC... mode?  From what I know about operating systems, os/9 can be
written to use the 68000 directly...

Now, everything that I have brought up here is just a thought.  If you
have some comments, PLEASE try to make them POSITIVE and try to make
some reasons why this might be possible.  I know that most people do
not like to use assembly code directly with the machine, leaving all
common amiga windows and other "standard" amiga code out of this,
but I am just trying to bring up a possibility that might work.

Remember the Transformer?  rather slow, monochrome only, etc..

I have a feeling that if you made a "transformer disk" in place of
kickstart, and set it up correctly, you might have a somewhat faster
system.  (this goes for ANY emulation/operating system)

Hans Bechtel