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- From: mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: UNIX running AmigaOS?
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 22:48:32 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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- In article <DLqF0z.9FB@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, isthesin@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Stephan Thesing) writes:
- >
- >This item has been discussed quite some time last year.
- >I.) It is impossible to run a complete AmigaOS emulation on a Unix box,
- > since the emulation of the hardware is too complex.
-
- It is not impossible. Just very, very slow.
-
- >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.
-
- It could be done. It is just difficult, slow and pointless. Besides the fact
- that no one would want to for those reasons. An example of this kind of
- emulator would be the DOS entrance under Windows. Hardware calls are trapped to
- Windows routines. Not fast, not pretty (and not even 100% in Win 3.1), but
- do-able...
-
- >There is IMHO no way of coexistance of AmigaOS and Unix since there concepts
- >are to different. AmigaOS is the faster OS, but Unix is safer. So live with it.
-
- Pretty much my conclusion, although the "impossible" label is untrue.
-
- >
- >Bye...
- > Stephan
- >
- >
- >|> : 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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