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- From: geert@cs.KULeuven.ac.be (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: UNIX running AmigaOS?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:00:00 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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- In article <4e5h1a$ja@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Benjamin Kenobi) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- But you better don't let AmigaOS applications use the hardware directly, since
- that would decrease the stability a lot. And it would prohibit you from
- running those apps on e.g. an Atari.
-
- Greetings,
-
- Geert
-
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- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
- Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
- Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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