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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Anyone has the source of a good linker?
Message-ID: <3448@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 18 Feb 89 21:52:03 GMT
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In article <01k165dDlp10106aJkM@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, shs@uts.amdahl.com (Steve Schoettler) writes:
> 3. If you knew there were going to be an MMU in the machine, just use
>    the regular unix a.out format and write a loader that tells the MMU
>    to install this at some virtual address 0.  I don't really know if
>    the MMU can do this, and the program might have a problem communicating
>    with other tasks running in real address space.

This would be an ideal way to start building a UNIX environment on top of
AmigaOS. You just need to implement a set of handlers that let the software
make system calls.

You could even emulate fork()!

Why would you want to do this? Well, you'd retain the fast AmigaOS response
time, while gaining the security of UNIX.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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