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From: lron@easy.UUCP (Dwight Hubbard)
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Subject: Re: '030 Ami vs '040 NeXT
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Date: 11 Dec 90 07:06:35 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.165612.20747@engin.umich.edu>, Ralph Seguin writes:

> trying to maintain compatability.  Personally, I think that the should create
> a new line of machines, and port the OS to it.  Also, I think that they should
> do several things to the OS:
>
> -virtual memory support (I know that it's coming)

I hope not, I can just see the disk swaping making AmigaDos useless for
Multimedia.  I still think it would be better to make AmigaDos apps run
under Unix, then the VM support becomes a moot point.  Either that or
an option to turn it off.

> -device independence (so you can plop in that 24 bit graphics board :)

Me too.

> -multi-processing/parallel processing support.

Yeah, I think a motherboard with several CPU sockets would be nice.  Just
by another CPU to speed it up.  Besides which it always strikes me as a
real waste to stick a 68040 board in an A3000 and disable the 68030.
Wonder if CBM will port Unix System VR4MP over to the Amiga.

> I think that Amiga OS is very beautiful.  Small, fast, elegant kernel.

Me too, I still wish it had some of the features from Unix systems though.----------------------------------------------------------
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