Path: utzoo!dciem!chk
From: chk@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
Message-ID: <1764@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 26 May 89 15:19:07 GMT
References: <8905252017.AA29210@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <8905252017.AA29210@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	It took me no more than 11 hours to get a pretty-much-working NFS
>under DNet.... to the point where I can now 1> CD into a remote directory on
>a UNIX machine at berkeley and run an Amiga compatible binary from it (takes
>a while to load over 2400 baud, but it works!).

This mainly says that you are an AmigaDOS guru. We all knew that already. :-)

You have written several AmigaDOS device handlers already. You know from
*hard won* experience where all the pitfalls are. You also have a huge
library of example code and support routines to draw from.

I once sat down to try to modify your example ram-disk handler to create a
DNet RFS. I fairly quickly gave up because I didn't know enough about the
deep magic inside AmigaDOS and filesystem handlers.

A year of hacking later, I probably know enough to get something working.

Sure, Amiga makes it easier than ever before to extend the OS.
But "easier than ever before" != "easy".

-- 
Grandpa Charnock's Law:	 | C. Harald Koch  NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario
You never really learn	 | chk@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca	   (long-term address)
to swear until you learn | chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca	      (my current job)
to drive.		 | chk@chkent.UUCP		    (my AMIGA at home)