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From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Amiga
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Date: 7 Feb 88 20:51:33 GMT
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In article <1869@leo.UUCP> harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
>
>	Or you could have a UNIX that is compatable! You know, run everything
>you have now! What a challenge! I would love to grapple with that one, just
>to see it done right. You know, the ultimate form of compatabitilty, run a
>game with realtime graphics, sound, controller response! Screw the reboot.
>
>	Or am I flashed off. Am I the ONLY person on the face of this planet
>that feels this way?

I think it would be a shame to force people to choose, and I also think that
someone who wants Unix is mainly interested in the already existing power of
Unix.  I may be wrong, but it seems to me that since so much of the current
Amiga environment is in ROM (i.e. system calls), it shouldn't be too difficult
to have that environment running as a task under Unix, softwarily speaking.
Stuff like disk formats, etc., are another story.


Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner      langz@athena.mit.edu    ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz
"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must first be stupid
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