Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage... Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 89 07:23:11 GMT References: <1610@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <195@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> <26900@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4084@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 39 In-reply-to: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 5 Aug 89 13:21:11 GMT Deven> AmigaDOS? More elegant than Unix? Don't make me laugh. In article <26900@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: Mike> Why should you laugh? Are you really that unschooled in OS design? On 5 Aug 89 13:21:11 GMT, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) said: Peter> Because unlike you he understands that AmigaDOS is the name of Peter> the Tripos derived file system. The rest of the system, the Peter> Exec, drivers, etc..., are together called AmigaOS. Indeed. Actually, you can legitimately call it "Exec" collectively, while "exec.library" is the more specific portion. Besides, "Exec" is harder to confuse with "AmigaDOS"... :-) -- Mike> Elegant is hardly the word. Of course, if you just want a Mike> "here's a pair of fd's" type interface, that's not hard to build Mike> on top of PIPE:. Peter> If you want it transparent to the programs being piped, it sure Peter> is. The only decent implementation of *that* is Bill Hawes' PIP Peter> device, which uses a non-standard call to get a pair of file Peter> handles that really do work like UNIX pipes. It's a botch. Basically, it's a kludge to workaround the fact that it was left out from the beginning. Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.