Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!amiga!jimm From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage... Message-ID: <4297@amiga.UUCP> Date: 3 Aug 89 05:11:42 GMT References: <1610@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <195@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> <513@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> <1332@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> <7523@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA Lines: 26 In article <1332@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> Vidhyanath K. Rao writes: )I would say that AmigaDOS looks like a project from a B student: A good )concept, but implementation shows lack of imagination and more importantly, )inability to adapt to a different evoirment: Relying on BCPL thruout is only )one instance of it. I think it looks more like a project that no student and few faculty can understand: one with real world pressure and economics. "Inability to adapt to a different environment," indeed. If you don't know the history, you are then only showing a "lack of imagination" for the things that can happen when you try the "business thing" for real. You don't think people really sat down in a classroom and said, "Screw that boring C stuff, let's do half the thing in BCPL! We'll still get an 'A'." Have you got any preferred system that's running on over a million machines? jimm Is this stuff going to be on the test? -- Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing "... the signs are very ominous, {cbmvax,well,oliveb}!amiga!jimm and a chill wind blows." - Justice Blackmun Opinions are my own. Comments are not to be taken as Commodore official policy.