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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <8081@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 13 Oct 90 02:04:40 GMT
References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <298@pdxgate.UUCP> <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <298@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes:
>> You would either have to make a virtual Amiga running under Unix (can
>> you say slow?)
>
>Hey, Apple can do this on the Mac... and the Mac system software is pretty
>screwed up.

But Peter ...

MacIntosh never made any pretention of being a Real Time system
like AmigaDOS does.

AmigaDOS programs must be able to control, exactly & precisely, the screen.
But if you have to do a context switch at every system call you can
pretty much kiss real-time goodbye.
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<- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com>
<- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <david@ms.uky.edu>
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