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  2. From: mk59200@cs.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
  5. Message-ID: <1db18jINNgsr@cs.tut.fi>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 11:41:07 GMT
  7. References: <Bx5Ao0.4JJ@unx.sas.com> <1992Nov03.173522.27765@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <36661@cbmvax.commodore.com>
  8. Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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  12. In article <36661@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
  13. >In article <1992Nov03.173522.27765@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Hamish.Macdonald@x400gate.bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald) writes:
  14. >>What about those wanting to write their own operating system?
  15. >
  16. >Easy.  Build it on top of the lower-level primitives.  Instead of considering
  17. >the hardware as the bottom level, consider the graphics view/viewport and
  18. >rendering primitives to be the "bottom" level.
  19.  
  20. Is it possible to completely replace the exec.library with something
  21. like the Mach or Amoeba microkernel and continue using the graphics.library?
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  24.     Markku Kolkka
  25.     mk59200@cc.tut.fi
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