>      This may seem like a dumb question from a technical point of view (it 
>      has been ages since I did an operating systems course) but....

>      Is it (or will it be) possible to freeze RiscBSD and then run RiscOS 
>      apps for a bit and then return to RiscBSD? I guess that the entire 
>      virtual memory needs to be frozen and I guess that you better disallow 
>      unixfs whilst BSD is frozen but this facility would be extremely 
>      useful.

>      (I am not expecting anything from RiscOS to survive running RiscBSD - 
>      only vice versa)

In theory, yes, it's possible---almost anything is---though in reality the
amount of work required to implement a system like this would be nothing sort
of astonishing. It may happen sometime in the future, but the priority is to
get everything working normally, then re-write the yucky bits.

	Yours Aye,

	Neil

* Neil A Carson
* The Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham
* e-mail carson@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk
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