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- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 16:57:25 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
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- Stephen B Hodge (sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz) wrote:
- : Mike (Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : :
- : : Hi, Stephen B Hodge , on 06-Mar-96 01:33:23 you scribbled....
- : : >Bernhard Fastenrath (fasten@weide.informatik.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
- : : >: - MacOS binary compatibility (ShapeShifter)
- : : >No. On a PPC machine, if you want to run mac binaries, you buy MacOS, if you
- : : >want to run Windoze you buy WindowsNT, if you want unix you buy one of
- : : >several flavours of unix available. We want an Amiga so we should stick to an
- : : >Amiga.
- : :
- : : Ah but that would mean a reboot at least to use the different OS.
- : : Say you're doing some graphics stuff on the Amiga , and want to run it thorugh
- : : photoshop - just run shapshifter( or equivilent) and quit it when you're
- : : done... OK this will always need an emulator of some sort, but this option
- : : should be available..
- : See my other reply. I would really like to see the ability to run several OSes
- : at the same time (with each one on its own AmigaOS screen). Intercommunication
- : could be provided by networking (eg. each OS thinks the others are seperate
- : computers on a network).
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- The CHRP standard isn't designed to do this. The machine is taken over by
- the current OS running. What you are talking about would require some form
- of OS switching which would be dificult to accomplish if it's possible.
- What would be nice would be some form of data exchange between OSs. Maybe a
- portion of the harddrive where each OS could save formatted info. Sort of
- like a clipboard between OSs.
-
- -Nyle
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