Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:3334 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:4064 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Operating Systems Message-ID: <1991May30.143511.23228@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 30 May 91 14:35:11 GMT References: <1991May14.180148.23635@athena.mit.edu> <21962@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May30.031517.17099@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 29 In article <1991May30.031517.17099@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) writes: > Well, I don't know how you can call the system software on the mac "really > bad". It is much better presented than the crap workbench (which I use on > my a500 at home...) that C= supply with the amiga. The Mac system software consists of a great user interface library stuck on top of total piece of junk CP/M-class file manager/program loader. To get multitasking working, they had to kludge around with the desk accessory interface (an interface that Amiga programmers would find truly gross: writing a Mac DA, even a simple one like a clock, requires the same sort of techniques as writing an interrupt handler). And even now it's staggeringly slow: a Mac II with more than one program running is less responsive to user input than my old Amiga 1000. > I'm not going to debate the merits of the hardware, but commodore have > _never_ beaten macintosh in terms of quality of software shipped with the > box, or software they make available for the box... On the contrary, the Amiga is the first mass-marketed computer to support a window system with anything like a modern operating system. The internals of the Mac "operating system" are straight out of the '60s. These, my opinions, are based on two decades of involvement in the computer business, and on the experience of having written better operating systems than the Mac's... both in an undergraduate CS class and later, for the fun of it. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .