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- From: davepl@microsoft.com (Dave Plummer)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 02:17:09 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft
- Message-ID: <4h5mn5$8f9@news.microsoft.com>
- References: <4gi6o1$jf2@shum.cc.huji.ac.il> <4475.6630T1337T407@es.co.nz>
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- In article <4475.6630T1337T407@es.co.nz>, bthompx@es.co.nz says...
- >Perhaps amigaos could be made hardware independant ? Like, but better than,
- >windoze NT ? So you could choose any hardware you like (not just ppc/68k) -
- >as long as there were hardware 'modules' for it.. I think it could work,
- >and be quite fast even. The key parts of the os (those used most often -
- >inc. the 'virtual cpu') would be moved off into a 'hardware module',
- >while the bulk of the OS would run as some sort of virtual CPU code. Just
- >plain 68k emulation might do for the v-cpu, for a year or so...
- >
- >
- >What do you all think ?
- >
-
- Better than NT in what particular respect (and why is it that Amiga users
- constantly misspell Windows, whereas if I were misspell AmigaDOS, that
- would somehow be offensive?).. NT has a system-specific HAL with minimal
- portions of CPU-dependant assembly, and the rest is written in C/C++.
-
- Anyone know what portion of Amiga OS is written in C vs. Assembly? Yes,
- you can emulate native 68K apps in this fasion (in the same way, I suppose,
- that NT runs x86 apps on a MIPS, PPC, or Alpha).
-
- To be honest, what I'd rather have is an Amiga "card" that I could slap
- into a PC and run AmigaDOS in a window, with the sound, hard drives,
- video, etc, virtualized to the host PC. I'm sure you can put together
- the Amiga custom chipset and a 68040 for under $500.
-
-
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-
- OOPS.
-
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