Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Amiga
Message-ID: <647@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 12:43:59 GMT
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In article ... rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers) writes:
> I imagine that Amiga UNIX (A/UX?, nah - dumb name :-) ) would run on a 68020
> board much like PC-DOS runs on the Bridge.  Shouldn't you be able to use
> both Amiga DOS and UNIX at the same time (and PC-DOS, for that matter)?  You
> could use a terminal emulator running under Amiga DOS to access the UNIX
> side of the machine. 

Please, if that's what C='s thinking of... don't do it.

We need to get the reliability of UNIX for AmigaDOS applications.

What happens to your UNIX coprocessor system when you get a Guru that could
have been avoided by UNIX' memory management?

It still wouldn't be as reliable as a plain vanilla UNIX implementation, 'cos
of all the shared memory segments... but hopefully you could blow the AmigaDOS
emulation out of the water and get back to plain UNIX if you did get a guru.
-- 
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