Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1991Apr28.123114.13467@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 28 Apr 91 12:31:14 GMT References: <1991Apr20.130639.27962@ncsu.edu> <1137@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Apr23.192046.21177@ncsu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 21 In article <1991Apr23.192046.21177@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: > Umm. Not talking about its OS; but yah I don't think any of us are convinced > that Ami gfx hardware is tops any more. [note to Politically Correct Police: > No slam intended... it's still very good for the price right now. Go away :-] It never *was* tops. Games Designers aside, what makes the Amiga special has always been the operating system. > Still, sure, it'd be great if the Amiga OS were available on other computers. Sure, but Tripos isn't the Amiga operating system. Tripos is a bag on the side of the Amiga O/S to provide file systems and program loading. I know that most PCs have "operating systems" that are no more than file systems and program loaders, but the Amiga isn't one of them. Tripos by itself, with its own memory managers, schedulers, and so on is quite a different beast from AmigaOS. If you want to see what it looks like, you can probably still find an old Sinclair QL to play around with. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .