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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: AUX 2.0 [was Re: Amiga/Atari help]
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Date: 6 May 90 02:11:51 GMT
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In article <46200061@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>     A friend of mine who works at Wolfram (of Mathematica fame) mentioned
>working w/ Apple's AUX 2.0 and says it's hot....
>     Let's hope CBM will get out and beat Apple's thunder before they
>(Apple) releases the damn thing.

Hmm, okay I've seen AUX2.0 myself, and have played with Commodore's UNIX.
IMHO, this is what I think:

   Apple has done an incredible job seaming the Mac stuff and Unix stuff
together.  Fer instance copying a file from a Unix partition to a Mac
partition automatically converts formats and stuff like that.  Clicking
on things like 'ls' actually loads another little doohingie which contains
information about which switches to run, etc. -- very nice indeed, and I
was very impressed.

   However, here is where I was not impressed:  SPEED!!  The thing was
running on a IIfx, and should have been blazing, but for some reason, an
'ls' listing from shell seemed to crawl onto the screen.  Definite yeuch(tm).

   Commodore has done a real good job getting one thing working (at least),
and that's SPEED!  Man, 'cat'ting /etc/termcap, that text file literally
*flew* onto the screen.  And you thought CygnusEd text scrolling was fast!!
User interface-wise, well, seemed pure unix like to me.  Apparently we also
have a bunch of GUI stuff ported, so that's a GOOD THING (tm).  

   In short, it depends if you want the native OS running at the same time.
I think the reason Apple wanted their MacOS running, was because -- at least
for one thing -- it's not pure Unix, so there'll be mucho porting to be done,
and it's safest to know that something will run.  Of course, it also keeps
that MAC consistency.  I'd love it if AmigaOS would run under the new Unix,
but we'll have to wait for that, I guess...

[Good natured jab:how good can the user interface be if the techies prefer
		  the Bourne shell.. :) :) :)]

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me