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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga OS
Message-ID: <9@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 16:00:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 16:00:23 1986
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References: <11448@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA
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In article <11448@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> dillon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>with the base standard I/O and execute functions built into the OS rather
						  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>theoretically have your own RAM: device, but they would have best
>been placed in the kernal rather than as separate processes.  The
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>usage on the Amiga is simple:  The intuition library should not be
>a library.  The graphics library should not be a library.  They should
>have been system calls.  The programmer should not have to OpenLibrary()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Caution, your Berkeley orientation is showing through.

ls -l /vmunix
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root       308224 Jan 13 20:03 /vmunix*

Lets not shovel everything into the kernel just because it's there.

-Fred