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- Stephan Thesing writes
- >In article <4e5h1a$ja@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
- fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Benjamin Kenobi) writes:
-
- >I.) It is impossible to run a complete AmigaOS emulation on a Unix box,
- > since the emulation of the hardware is too complex.
- True
- >II.) Unix and AmigaOS can not be run concurrently, since AmigaOS accesses
- the
- > hardware directly and this is not allowed on a Unix environment,
- since
- > e.g. the usage of the system timers, interrupts, display hw can not
- be
- > seperated, without big, big changes in AmigaOS. Anyhow, AmigaOS is
- not
- > multi user clean: One process may crash others without no effort, so
- > it is not wise to have this OS share the critical parts of the
- machine, like
- > interrupts, etc.
-
- False. What do you think EMULATION is for? The emulated Amiga can of
- course bang its emulated hardware as hard as it likes, without any risk
- for the UNIX.
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