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- Subject: Re: UNIX running AmigaOS?
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 16:25:20 GMT
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- >>It could be done. It is just difficult, slow and pointless. Besides the fac
- >>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 trappe
- >>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 concep
- >>>are to different. AmigaOS is the faster OS, but Unix is safer. So live wit
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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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- Wouldn't emulating the copper be exceedingly difficult, even impossible
- given their hardware? How could you emulate a screen in say, superhires
- interlace for the top 20 lines, lores dual-playfield for the next 200
- lines, and ham8 for the last 30 lines?
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