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- From: crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Amiga and UNIX -- What's the status?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.181008.1750@ckctpa.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:10:08 GMT
- Reply-To: crash%ckctpa@myrddin.sybus.com (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
- References: <jonathan.725095507@author.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Edwards & Edwards Consulting
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- jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
- >The latter was my biggest disappointment when Commodore released SVR4,
- >especially since Mac software will run on AUX, DOS and Windoze on iX86 UNIX
-
- Oh really? Strange, I've never been able to run Windoze code in the
- DOS emulator... Could you be referring to SoftPC on the SPARC?
-
- >machines, and so on. To have UNIX, AmigaDOS, and DOS/Windoze (via Bridge-
- >board) all up and running at the same time would result in a truly amazing
- >machine! Any chance of seeing this happen, or is it relegated to world of
- >"Gee, it'd be awfully nice if...."?
-
- Gee, would it be awfully useful?
-
- I agree about running AmigaDOS under SVR4. But that's a mammoth
- undertaking. And a friend and I have considered writing a 386
- simulator to run DOS code, but some of the complexities are
- outrageous. Not impossible, mind you, since IBM has already done it
- with their PC-Sim product on the 6000's (much faster than SoftPC,
- which also works). But I don't have the resources that IBM has...
-
- >Jonathan
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- Frank "Crash" Edwards Edwards & Edwards Consulting
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- "An apple a day will keep the doctor away."
- "Perhaps, but will that work in NetHack 3.0, patchlevel 10?"
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