Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 18:43:49 GMT References: <1003@cbmger.UUCP> <7827@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Mar27.062345.6622@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <7840@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 27 In-reply-to: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU's message of 27 Mar 91 21:00:47 GMT >>>>> On 27 Mar 91 21:00:47 GMT, barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) said: Dan> I would still argue that, for an OS to be "state of the art" (as was Dan> claimed by the original poster), it has to have some concept of file Dan> ownership; a multiple user model in which a user "owns" a file. No... That's the last thing you want to do to a state of the art, *PERSONAL* computer operating system. This is too much like the heavy model of operating systems like UNIX and VMS (I still say that the biggest mistake made with UNIX was in not developing a light weight, single user version). If you need file ownership because you are going to run many people on your system, relagate the "multiply" owned files to a file server and set up a daemon process on your Amiga to negotiate with the file server (for instance, each request for a file includes a password that the daemon asks for on startup). Don't have the money for a file server (which is difficult to understand in that an A500 could play this file server with an adaption to NET:)? Then simply take your "critical" files with you on floppy or tape. -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. (415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"