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.
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