don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) (01/16/91)
I'm in the process of writing a series of articles on the various
emulators and alternative operating systems available for the Amiga, to be
included in our users' group newsletter (Amiable News from the AmigaNetwork
Users' Group, meetings 1st Sunday of the month in Newark, DE, new members
always welcome :-). Anyway, although I've never owned any of these or used
them for any reasonable length of time, I've read quite a few articles in
magazines and postings in c.s.a.* related to some of them, and I think I
have enough info to give a general overview on most of it, but I'd like ot
go into a little bit of detail.
What I'm basically looking for is the following information:
Price
Compatibility with emulated machine
Speed
Usage of Amiga side (drives, memory, etc), ease of sharing data
Support for:
hard drives
AmigaOS (runs with/as a process under AmigaOS (2.0?))
Which Amigas useable on, compat. with accelerators
Installation, if hardware-based
for the following products (and anything else related):
PC
bridgeboards, sidecar, Transformer, Pulsar PC board, ATOnce
Mac
AMaxII, II+
ST
Medusa, MAST's ST emulator, ?????
C64
Go64, A64, ????
Unix (et. al.)
SYSVR4, Minix
Some other more product-specific questions:
Ideas as to when/if AMax II+ will be available?
Minix for 680x0 (where x > 0)
HD drivers that have been written for Minix
OS9 port in the works? (If so, basic overview of OS9... I know
nothing about it save that I've never heard of any of its
users not liking it).
A _brief_ history of UNIX, diffs between BSD & AT&T, how those
differences are addressed in SYSVR4.
If you have any experience with or not-too-commonly-known knowledge
about any of the above, I'd appreciate hearing from you :-). I do
subscribe to all the newsgroups to which this is posted, but I'm more
likely not to accidentally skip over replies (late-night news reading does
that sometimes) if I receive them via e-mail.
I'm doing the installment on PC emulators this month, so please respond
sometime fairly soon if you're sending me info on them (pretty demanding,
aren't I :-); the others can wait a little while (the Mac installment is
next month, followed by Unix/Minix, then a final one on ST, 64, CP/M, etc
emulators).
Thanks!
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