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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Memory protection for AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <5877@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 11 Jun 90 10:45:50 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <12521@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
> Of all the operating systems that need studying, I found out that Unix is
> the cause for most of excess garbage added to streamlined operating systems
> such as ours.

Perhaps you are studying the wrong things? Stuff that could be learned from
UNIX includes improving the file-locking paradigm (in UNIX all files always
appear to be "closed", so (for example) you can read an output file from a
background job to check on its progress), and providing transparent access to
PIPEs (something that could be entirely hidden in the shell). Kludges like
the big-ugly-monolith kernel can be ignored.

I highly recommend the original Bell System Technical Journal articles on the
UNIX operating system (July/August 1974, I believe). You should be able to find
them in your local library.
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