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- From: stmbt01@moravian.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: UNIX running AmigaOS?
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 02:34:58 GMT
- Organization: Moravian College
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- mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu wrote:
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- >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...
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- >>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.
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- >Pretty much my conclusion, although the "impossible" label is untrue.
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- Yeah, it's just a virtual machine of sorts.. Emulating hardware
- through software.. Even the 680x0 instructions would have to be
- emulated.. That would fall under the category of "pretty slow" but
- once you start emulating the other processors, it would degrade to
- "very slow" and then to all the facets of the hardware, it'd be
- "unbearably slow" (though I'd be interested to see it on a DEC
- Alpha)..
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- Emulating the physical world with software is a very intrigueing
- proposition, but to make a faithful replication of hardware through
- software would be a serious undertaking, to say the least. (Look at
- VM)
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