Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga v. NeXt (was Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4) Message-ID: <1991Feb11.120141.2004@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 12:01:41 GMT References: <32530@auc.UUCP> <1991Feb10.010110.11187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <830@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 10 In article <830@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > Why shouldn't the Video Toaster be a factor in deciding between an A3000UX and > a NeXT? I dunno. If you're using the Toaster, or anything else that runs real-time, you would be crazy to load your Amiga down with UNIX. UNIX, particularly that mongrel variant known as SVR4, is *not* a real-time operating system. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .