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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
In-Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Thu, 4 Apr 1991 00:52:12 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.005212.17755@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
   >
	   That is true. So what? You choose which operating system
   you want. If you want AmigaDOS only, get a non-Unix Amiga. If you
   want Unix, get a unix Amiga. Although Unix and AmigaDOS don't run
   concurrently, you can reboot into either and so use whatever you
   like. And your point about X isn't such a big deal either as X is
   a standard. BTW, you can safely expect all software made in the
   future for the Sun to be made for Amiga Unix, because all that
   will be necessary is a simple recompilation.

Which X standard are you talking about?  Motif or Open Look?  Errrh, I
should be asking which windowing system.

I think you may be over simplifying the the ease with you are going to
get Sun software to run on the Amiga.  Anyway, wouldn't you much
rather run that same software on an 040 NeXT, or better yet an HP
Snake :-)?  Why is it only future software?  dBase IV, Lotus 123, and
WP all run on the Sun now.

-Mike