Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars! Keywords: editor Message-ID: <43938@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 9 Feb 91 04:15:16 GMT References: <1991Jan31.222307.16670@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <148@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 44 In article <148@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl> remy@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Remy Wetzels) writes: >In article <1991Jan31.222307.16670@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> (Eric Wampner) writes: >>I hate the Mac for not having a CLI, I hate DOS for not having a usefull >>windowing enviorment, I like unix cause its like an AMIGA, Multitasking, >>Windowing (with X and such) and has a CLI. > >ACT NORMAL, YOU FOOL! >I LIKE Unix cause its LIKE AN AMIGA, Multitasking????????????? > >If you call an Amiga a Multitasking machine, what are UNIX machines???? (GOD??) > >Commodore wasn't even born when Unix was invented!!!!!!!!!! Did Eric IMPLY that the Amiga invented multitasking? No, I believe he didn't. Your condescending attitude isn't really appropriate, even given that this is c.s.a.advocacy. >Any normal machine (Yes, even an ATARI ST) can perform multitasking. Multi- >tasking is always made by the software, not the hardware! True and false. The hardware must have some support for true, fast, USEFUL multitasking. I'm not saying that you have to have dual-port memory, but a co-processor or three doesn't hurt. Also, to take advantage of multitasking you have to program with a whole different set of rules, which is one reason DOS machines (for example) have been so slow at it. The Amiga's native OS (not some add-on hack) provides for CPU-friendly alternatives to single-tasking machine programming techniques such as busy- waiting for keyboard input. In this particular case, you tell the OS you want keyboard input, then your task goes to sleep until such time as you get it. > An ST Friend who will always love UNIX, I really have to ask if you've ever used a machine with proprietary, real- time multitasking. No, Unix doesn't count. Greg -- -------Greg-Harp-------greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu-------s609@cs.utexas.edu------- "Confutatis maledictus "When the accursed have been counfounded Flammis acribus addictis, == And given over to the bitter flames, Voca me cum benedictis." -- Mozart Call me with the blessed."