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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Summary: AmigaMerge
Message-ID: <278@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 19:03:41 GMT
References: <5804@cbmvax.UUCP> <5827@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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In article <5827@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
> As a matter of fact, all A2620 boards have the option of autobooting into
> either Amiga OS or UNIX, this feature being controlled by a PCB jumper
> (in fact, J304).  Now, if there's no UNIX present, you will of course not
> be able to autoboot into it.  No matter the preset, holding down both
> mouse buttons at boot time will get you a menu that lets you select the
> Amiga OS controlled by either the 68020 or the 68000, or UNIX if you have
> it on your hard disk.
> -- 
> Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"

I understand now. You can run either AmigaDos OR Unix. but not both at the same
time. what a shame. I mean you have AmigaDos with MSDOS running concurrently,
why not Unix running on the 68020, with AmigaDos on the 68000? I realize
there are some hardware problems with both unix and amigados trying to grab
the same hardware devices. but microport does it with their unix running
with dosmerge (up to 4 sessions) running at the same time. when you start
up dosmerge, you specify what ports you want to give the dos session and
then unix can't use those ports. The file system is compatable between
both unix and msdosmerge and so they can share the same drive and 
directories. AmigaDos is a lot more like unix than MSDOS, so why can't
you get AmigaDOS and Unix to work together? 

AmigaMerge! Unix could run the whole boat with amigados and msdos windows!

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