Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS<->Amiga Unix integration (was Re: Amiga IPC should be the Amiga Unix IPC!)
Message-ID: <3798@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 21:12:22 GMT
References: <1556@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <1556@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre) says:
> In article <2531@unicus.UUCP> craig@Unicus.COM (Craig D. Hubley) writes:
>>In article <290@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>>>In article <2504@unicus.UUCP> *I* write:
>>>>to Amiga Unix tasks (remember AmigaDOS will run as a task under Amiga Unix).

>>>As far as I know,  AmigaDOS will not be running as a task under Amiga Unix.

>>Arg.  Clarification, Commodore ?
> Anyone who has seen a Sun RoadRunner (386i machine) will know kind of seamless
> integration is possible. .... AmigaDOS should be to AmigaUnix as PC/DOS is
> to the Sun-386i.  

If AmigaOS were as simple/mindless/brain-dead/etc. as is PC-DOS, this would
certainly be possible.  However, it isn't.  For example, let's assume you have
Exec running as a UNIX process.  As everyone knows, AmigaOS is a real-time OS,
and expects to be so.  Oh, but you mean UNIX isn't, and my sub-EXEC won't
have any guarantees about CPU time.  I'm not any of the software engineers
working at this, just the one of the hardware guys that gave them the problem 
to think about.  But that's the kind of problem involved.

> This is a perfect opportunity to improve on what Apple (for example) has
> attempted to do.  

Well, we do have re-entrant libraries already, so it would be hard to have the
same kind of problems that Apple has.

> 					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.
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