Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!jalkio From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb17.230217.4906@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 17 Feb 91 23:02:17 GMT References: <8298@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1991Feb12.080356.22413@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1991Feb13.155024.4860@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Feb13.231511.5001@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 34 In article <1991Feb13.231511.5001@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <1991Feb13.155024.4860@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: >> So, it is the question of sophistication and speed. Would you rather use >> MS-DOS or some windowing system? > > Are you at all familiar with AmigaOS? It's a lot more than MS-DOS... in some > respects it's a damn sight better than UNIX: it's faster, supports real time > better than Mach (remember, real-time and VM go together like a horse and > porsche), and has a higher level windowing system than X or NextStep (not > as fancy or complete, but the base API is higher level... it is to X as > UNIX is to (say) OS/360). I must admit that I haven't programmed in AmigaOS. What do you mean by "higher level" windowing? Is there a higher level than objects? I believe that AmigaOS is faster and "tighter" than the Mach/NeXTStep combo, but Mach/NeXTStep has Unix and Object oriented graphics interface combined together. IF you are not a programmer, this doesn't mean much, but if you ARE then this means quite much. > > By the by, I'm done playing devil's advocate on this. The Amiga 3000UX > clearly does have real advantages over the NeXT: a smaller UNIX, for one. > The ones that most people have been pushing (color, slots) are nice, but > the tighter design of V.4 (can you believe that?) seems to give it more of > an edge. I do think it needs to come down some in price to really take off... > it's a few hundred dollars too high to be the clear winner for the bean > counters. Gotta differentiate it better from the 386 clones also running > V.4 and Open Look, and the low-end workstations. > > (still hoping for AmigaOS under UNIX... or vice-versa) > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > .