Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: <7502@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 22:59:03 GMT References: <1991Jan10.151816.13893@rice.edu> <1991Jan11.071410.16032@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <37883@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan12.092901.6922@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <37927@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 13 In article <37927@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: > SCORE: AmigaDOS: 0.5 UNIX: 9.0 You:1 Many of your points against AmigaDOS are points against particular applications. There are big system-churning applications on UNIX, too... such as GNU Emacs. But I've been able to edit files larger than available memory on UNIX since the days when "available memory" meant "whatever is left out of 64K once you allow for the stack and static data". SCORE: PC-Ware applications: 0, Real programmers: 10. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .