Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0 Message-ID: <1990Oct17.180343.22258@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 17 Oct 90 18:03:43 GMT References: <6956@uwm.edu> <15161@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 20 ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) writes: > circuit@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (circuit) writes: >> >> Could someone tell me or send me som information about AMiga's >> UNIX system V r4.0 ? I am interested in putting together a UNIX based >> system to do computer graphics and animation. I am considering a 386 >> based PC with Unix House version of UNIX V r 4.0 [no flames please :-)] > > Why do you think you need Unix for computer graphics and animation? >It seems to me that native AmigaOS would be better for this task. I don't think you should read that as "graphics and animation -> need Unix", but as "my three requirements are Unix, graphics, and animation"; for lots of us, Unix as a development environment seems a simple and obvious necessity of life, on a par with, say, air to breathe. Remember all the flames four years back "why isn't AmigaDOS (more like) Unix"? Same crowd; we're still out here. Kent, the man from xanth.