Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!altos!vsi1!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 23:51:49 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> <961.282a98ed@vger.nsu.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 39 In article <961.282a98ed@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes: >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 people who really know Unix and AmigaDos would rather use AmigaDos. By this criteria, the Amiga is better than a workstation (by choice). VM and memory protection and Multiuser capabilities don't define a workstation OS, and if they do, I don't want it. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************