harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) (12/16/87)
Just a strange thought. It's obvious to me what CBM has in mind in terms of their up and coming 68020 board with that bewitching PMMU on it. At first I said to myself "Well you can't run AmigaDos". Then I said "Well you can run Unix on it." Now I really got to thinking. Knowing how AmigaDos runs, with direct support and access to the MMU, is it not possible to have a totally integrated environment? Instead of making AmigaDos act like Unix, how about making Unix look like AmigaDos? As a process of course. Even better, make the fact that Unix is running, transparent. You know, like it wasn't there! You could at least let AmigaDos run as a process, and if it dumps core (read GURU), the process died, fire another! Pull up another. Pick up those pieces. Oh wait. I know, that's crazy. Or... Well here is another one. This process, changes and hogs this multiuser system and becomes a realtime system. Swap that scheduler! Hello scheduler? Please, I know the scheduling algorithm is inherent (as in part of the kernel code) but there's no reason you can't change/swap the naughty bits. Now thats crazy. Just a strange thought. Sh*t, full circle. Cybernetic implosion. -- Work: Computer Consoles Inc. (CCI), Advanced Development Group (ADG) Irvine, CA (RISCy business! Home of the CCI POWER 6/32) UUCP: uunet!ccicpg!harald