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- From: fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Benjamin Kenobi)
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- Subject: Re: UNIX running AmigaOS?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 14:51:22 GMT
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- Ben Hutchings (worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
- : On 22 Jan 1996, gj489 wrote:
- : [...]
- : > I really have no clue how this is gonna happen but I know that the
- : > Amiga emulator is being developed for Linux machines.
-
- : I have read the documentation. On a mid-range Pentium it runs about 20%
- : as fast as an A500, apparently. It is a hack, pure and simple - not a
- : useful program.
-
- : > It is really obvious that Amiga running as a Linux process will take
- : > advantage of the Linux swaping routines as far as allocating memory,
- : > the problem is how is it gonna deal with Chip and Fast memory?
-
- : Simple. There are no custom chips, so there is no worry about this.
-
- : > As far as expectations, I have seen on a Linux from a DOS emulator
- : > to an HP48GX calculator under X-Windows so Amiga emulation wouldn't
- : > be that hard to make. Well, nothing like the real thing but it is worth
- : > a try I suppoe.
-
- : Not _that_ hard to make, but pretty useless, because of the virtual
- : impossibility of simulating the custom chips.
-
- : Ben.
-
-
- What I've been talking about is running Linux on an AMIGA, and modifiying
- AmigaOS to run under Linux. In this situation, all of the custom chips and
- hardware would still be available for use.
-
- Dan
-
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