amc4919@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello) (05/07/91)
There have been many suggestions regarding running both the original '030 and a new '040 in an A3000 at the same time, to achieve multiprocessing. These have all been met with replies saying how AmigaDOS would have to be rewritten. There have also been many questions regarding the possibility of running UNIX under AmigaDOS, or vice-versa. The replies again said that it couldn't be done. My suggestion is neither. How about this: Run UNIX on one of the processors, and AmigaDOS on the other. This would not be multiprocessing; it would be two machines in one box. They need share hardly anything. Give all the video, audio, the keyboard & mouse, to the AmigaDOS processor, and an Ethernet card to the UNIX processor. Separate them as much as possible so that even when one crashes, the other is undisturbed. If they need separate HD controllers, so be it. Finally, write a software-hack that allows the two machines to send messages back and forth, so that from the AmigaDOS machine you can "remote" login to the UNIX machine (in a window), and someone logged into the UNIX machine can open a shell on the AmigaDOS machine (if he has privilege, of course!). I don't actually know what I'm talking about. Can anyone out there tell me whether a scheme like this would be feasible? AMC