Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!pacbell!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks
From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Amiga Amix Unix
Summary: we want AmigaMerge!
Message-ID: <1266@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 15:15:27 GMT
References: <6301@nigel.udel.EDU> <211@amix.commodore.com>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
Lines: 35

In article <211@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
writes:
>In article <6301@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu
>(Baird McIntosh) writes:
>>I know in the past there were demos of Amix running with AmigaDOS and
>>a PC Bridgeboard at the same time (although maybe even that's not
>>true since *I* wasn't at the shows).
>This has never happened.
>Amix is your favorite OS. :-)

On PC clones Microport Unix and AIX have DOSmerge, and Interactive has VP/IX
which allows you to run MSDOS sessions under Unix, 

So when are we going to get an AmigaMerge to allow AmigaDOS sessions under
Amix? Unix is nice, but what good is paying for all that neato Amiga hardware
if you can't run all that neato amiga software without rebooting the entire
machine?

If I just want a unix machine, I would by a cheap PC 286 or 386 and run Unix
there and keep my Amiga for amiga stuff. Unix is one of those OS's that you
don't want to turn on and off constantly. Once it's up you tend to want to keep
it running. Shutdown and rebooting is a lengthy process. You can't just turn it
off or do a three finger salute like you can with AmigaDOS. So everytime I want
to play a game on my machine that has Amix, I have to run Shutdown, wait 5 to
10 minutes, then reboot with AmigaDOS. Blech! 

WE WANT AMIGADOS UNDER AMIX!!!!!!!!!
Do you think this will be something that will be worked on in the future?

>Pax, Keith
>-- 
Pax? Wasn't that the name of the group of scientists in Genesis II? ;-)

(Don't take this posting as ungratefulness. I do appreciate your efforts into
Amix. It sounds great)