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- From: ludde@nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 11 Mar 96 22:38:33 GMT
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- References: <4h2p87$nu@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4hiq13$h6c@thebes.waikato.ac.nz> <2144.6639T1400T2921@Redrobe.demon.co.uk> <4ho7ou$2786@thebes.waikato.ac.nz> <4hsd9l$skq@murphy2.servtech.com> <4hvie4$1j7g@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>
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- In <4hvie4$1j7g@thebes.waikato.ac.nz> sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Stephen B Hodge) writes:
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- >nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
- >: Stephen B Hodge (sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz) wrote:
- >:
- >: 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.
- >I realise all of this. What I was saying is that it would be nice (not that
- >it would be possible).
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- Actually, IBM has been working to accomplish something similar. Their
- "Workplace OS" is supposed to be able to run a number of "OS personalities"
- which basically is an API framework for a specific OS. The underlying
- services are provided by some common base.
- It isn't actually a number of different OSes running at the same time, but
- you would be able to run software written for a number of different OSes
- at the same time. Which for most people probably would be the main point.
-
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-
- --
- -Erik Lundevall
- WWW: http://www.algonet.se/~erikl/
- Your fault. Core dumped.
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