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From: perry@atux01.UUCP (P. Kivolowitz)
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Subject: Re: Amiga OS
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 16:00:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 16:00:33 1986
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Summary: unix > amigados, amigados > unix arguments do not make sense

Matt  Dillion  thinks  AmigaDos   is ``total shit'' and believes that Unix
is  the god which all o.s.  must  emulate. Basing his opinions on the that
he professes to be an expert kernel  hacker he thinks all should be thrown
out (except for a few graphics routines)  and we should start again.

Well, Matt, I don't know if you are a Unix expert  and, in fact, your exp-
ertise in operating system X doesn't really bear upon the argument at hand.
Unix is not Tripos.  And  similarly, Tripos is not Unix. I think your views
are too restrictive  (read that  narrow minded).  The  answer to statements
like ``Unix is  great   because...and  AmigaDos  is  shit  because...'' are
senseless and without worth. The two  operating  systems  address different
needs.

Maybe you are a UNIX  expert,  Matt, but you definately are not an AmigaDos
expert. In many ways,  the  kernel  underlying  the  nifty imagery, possess
truely state-of-the-art concepts in operating system design. You'd see that
too if you'd not look through Unix colored glasses.

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No personal aspersions intended here nor do I believe any were cast.

And, I don't know why you couldn't get in a disk access while other processes
were going on - but I'd suggest it was something you were doing wrong since
examples of doing just that abound - like running musicraft while copying
or formatting disks.

Perry S. Kivolowitz