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From: star@fluke.UUCP (David Whitlock)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiganix
Message-ID: <3031@vax4.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 22:47:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 22:47:03 1986
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Keywords: Amiga, AmigaDos, Unix, portability


I second the 'emotion'!!  It seems that most micro manufacturers emulate
Unix in many ways.  They change this around and that around, add a few
options here, strip a few options there, but ultimately everything is some
what Unix flavored.  Amiga is so close I can taste it, but they too have
not been bold enough to standardize, at least in practice only.

Earlier, I started a discussion about wildcards and pipes... It seems from
that seed, many other developers feel the same frustration.  From a users
point of view, Workbench is a great tool and maybe most would never venture
to the depth of AmigaDOS (just a guess).  From a developers point of view,
one who spends most of his/hers waking hours programming on large main-frames,
one can only guess the frustration felt when after hours, with a cup of coffee
in hand, learing the alternate syntax and names to tools he/she uses most
naturally in the big world.  This is not to say that there are not alternatives
to the Unix approach, but Unix seems to be the most natural for C etc.

Best Regards,




-- Dave Whitlock

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John Fluke Mfg. Co., 33031 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150


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-- Dave Whitlock

        {decvax!microsof,uw-beaver,ssc-vax,allegra,lbl-csam}!fluke!star

John Fluke Mfg. Co., 33031 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150