Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking vs MultiFinder (was Amy 68030 vs Mac IIcx) Keywords: Oranges are better than Apples. Message-ID: <10213@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 Mar 90 16:21:42 GMT References: <3137@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <21904@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <10143@cbmvax.commodore.com> <10155@portia.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 38 In article <10155@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.Stanford.EDU (David Hopper) writes: >In article <10143@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: >>the Mac II machines run the same basic UNIX that the Amiga 25xx machines run. However >Oh, please, please, please say it's not so, Dave. All I hear around here is >how A/UX *sucks*. Even people at Apple realise it's a joke; a hack whipped >together to snag government contracts. I've been relying on the hope that >AMIX will be a *truly* competitive UNIX package. Perhaps I should clarify that, but it is technically correct. Both the Mac and the Amiga are running ports of UNIX System V. I think A/UX is Release 3.1, and the first released version of AMIX will be Release 4. But I would certainly expect Apple to upgrade A/UX to Release 4, and if they do, there's a real good chance that they'll be able to run the same executables. However, they are ports, and the porting process lets the porter make some changes. Apparently (based on my interpretations of probable the same popular opinions you've heard) Apple spent more time making A/UX have a very limited capability to run a single Mac program at a time, rather than making A/UX a very good UNIX implementation. Our UNIX people seem to have exactly the opposite philosophy -- AMIX should primarily be the best possile UNIX system running on Amiga hardware. So at that level, the two UNIX implementations are probably much different. >If my comments are ignorant, forgive me. It just scares me to see AMIX >compared to A/UX, after hearing the popular opinions of A/UX. The complaints I've heard about A/UX are specific to A/UX, not applicable to the general System V Release 3.1 UNIX or any other specific implementation of that OS. >Dave Hopper /// Yesterday, CS. | bard@jessica -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Too much of everything is just enough