Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!manes From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: <961.282a98ed@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 10 May 91 16:58:21 GMT References: <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu> <4d7Gypu=1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May5.124008.24559@sugar.hackercorp.com> <81en02.g073H01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Lines: 68 In article <81en02.g073H01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) writes: > In article <1991May5.124008.24559@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>In article <4d7Gypu=1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >>> I'm just responding to the posts my by Amiga users. When you guys ask >>> how large is NeXT software, and scream we don't want a program if it's >>> too large, what am I suppose to say? >> >>"You have a point there" >> >>> The NeXT is a workstation. >> >>The Amiga is a workstation too. > > Only when it is running UNIX is it a workstation. Amiga DOS does not > qualify as a workstation OS. It is definitely not multiuser and does not > do virtual memory. > AmigaDOS does not qualify as a Workstation operating system? I am not sure I understand this. Are you saying that UNIX is the only operating system that is a 'workstation operating system'? If so, will DEC be sad to learn that the VAXStation is not a workstation since it runs VMS? I agree that AmigaDOS does not do virtual memory, nor directly support multiple users, but so what? It does support multitasking, it does support tcp/ip, DECNet as well as X Windows. Most workstations I have used, and see used are used as single user stations. AmigaDOS handles that just fine. With enough memory the virtual memory question becomes insignificant. Certainly it could be said that there are advantages to non-VM systems. I guess I balk at the generalization that the Amiga is not a workstation, nor could it be unless it runs UNIX. To hell with capability, to hell with different thought, UNIX is it. Smells like MS/DOS thinking to me. Perhaps your message did not mean to convey that viewpoint, but it sure seemed like it to me. Please undersstand I don't think the Amiga 3000 is a replacement for Sparcs or the like, and certainly the Amiga operating system could be expanded to better support the workstation community; but in my opinion, the A3000 is a workstation. My Amiga 3000 is indeed a workstation. It allows me to work and performs as well as some of the Suns we have here. >> >>-- >>Peter da Silva. `-_-' >>. > > > -- > /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ > /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ > /* */ > /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */ -mark= +--------+ ================================================== | \/ | Mark D. Manes "The Most lopsided deal since ..." | /\ \/ | manes@vger.nsu.edu | / | (804) 683-2532 "Make up your own mind! - AMIGA" +--------+ ================================================== "I protest Captain! I am not a merry man!" - Lt. Worf