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From: grr@cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga OS
Message-ID: <17@cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 01:44:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 01:44:04 1986
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Summary: Cut us some slack Matt...

> My dream of the Amiga OS: (Definately Berkeley UNIX Biased)
> 	(A) UNIX like filesystem
> 	(B) Screens, Windows implimented w/  /dev/ device drivers
> 	(C) I like the extended file-name idea (con:0/0...), put it in
> 	(D) IOCTL'S
> 
> 				-Matt

Matt, could you ease your tone a little?

AmigaDos is not itended to be unix.  It is based on a model where relatively
well behaved processes cooperate to accomplish desired tasks.  I have heard
second hand that these concepts are expressed in the literature for the 'Thoth'
operating system from the U of Waterloo.

I am a self confessed unix hacker, but have worked with over a dozen assorted
operating systems and have found things to love and hate in each.  Contemporary
versions of unix, ie System V and BSD4.2 require at least of 1MB of memory and
20-40MB of disk to do anything useful...

The ATT 7300 is a lot along thing lines of what you describe, but most unix
people can't stand the thing.  It's slow, and half the standard commands have
been made optional (read: pay more) just to get it to fit on a 20MB disk.

Amiga is listening, but I think they will hear more of what you say, if you
present your comments in a more positive way, and skip the my (brand)car doesn't
drive like a Lambourghini diatribes.
-- 
George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbm!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbm!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)