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- d92-jfo@nada.kth.se (Johan Forsberg) wrote:
-
- >>I.) It is impossible to run a complete AmigaOS emulation on a Unix box,
- >> since the emulation of the hardware is too complex.
- >True
-
- False ! Read later :-)
-
- >>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.
-
- Please, have a look at UAE-0.3. It is a *RUNNING* amiga emulator
- for unix boxes. This includes PC under linux ! The hardware is "perfectly"
- emultated. So well that even DEMO runs on it (I've seen Sanity World of
- Commodore 92 on my sun-sparc-station).
-
- Why are such wonderfull thing always unknown ?
-
- Samuel DEVULDER.
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