Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Buy NeXT (was: NeXT-bashing party... Message-ID: <1991Apr2.190843.26402@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 2 Apr 91 19:08:43 GMT References: <1991Mar29.130758.1@dev8.mdcbbs.com> <2022@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> <_adGva+d1@cs.psu.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article <_adGva+d1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > Let's hope NeXT never goes SVR4. Mach and BSDism's are the only way > to go. I hate messages that start off with "YOU'RE WRONG", but I'm afraid you are. SVR4 has all the BSDisms you could want, but it leaves behind the really horrible parts of BSD... like the system configuration stuff (which hasn't changed since V7). A true Mach system would implement the O/S as a set of tasks and shared libraries on top of the microkernel, not the current kludge, and then SVr4, SVr2, BSD, and any other O/S API would be available. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .