Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 89 10:35:25 GMT References: <6406@cbmvax.UUCP> <6464@cbmvax.UUCP> <3689@sugar.hackercorp.com> <14465@gryphon.COM> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: keithd@gryphon.COM's message of 9 Apr 89 08:47:03 GMT In article <14465@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes: >Perhaps we might want to provide a migration path for AmigaDOS applications >to run under UNIX. Whatever level of AmigaDOS compatibility can be provided >will certainly be helpful, even if it is no more than implementing translation >calls. Indeed. I expect I'll support porting old programs via a link library, as opposed to run-time support. >BTW, what does the UNIX call look like to allocate CHIP ram vs FAST ram? :-> The malloc() call will not distinguish between chip and fast ram; a separate function will be provided to allow such distinctions. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.