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- Subject: Re: UNIX running AmigaOS?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 02:43:58 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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- In article <4dompv$s4q@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Benjamin Kenobi) writes:
- >
- >
- >Here's a thought I had about AmigaOS and UNIX running concurrently. I've heard
- >that there was at one time a project to develop a UNIX system which would
- >multitask with AmigaOS. This sounds neat, but there would probably be a lot
- >of work involved in rewriting the UNIX source code. Here's my thought:
- >
- >Wouldn't it make more sense to take say NetBSD or Linux for Amiga and then
- >rewrite the much smaller amiga Exec to run under NetBSD/Linux?
-
- With OS source code, this would be a fairly simple job, I think. Just gut the
- stuff that happens during startup that checks hardware, and implement stuff to
- get resource info from the UNIX side.
-
- >Maybe even in this situation, AmigaOS would automatically have virtual memory
- >as a result of Exec using the UNIX kernel routines.
- >
- >You could even have the UNIX frame-buffer appear as an amiga screen that
- >you could flip and drag.
-
- This would take re-writing on the Unix side
- >
- >
- >Just thought I'd throw this out and see what comments arise.
- >
- >Dan
-
- It would slow the system down quite a bit.
-
- >
- >
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