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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some thoughts
Message-ID: <380@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 00:23:46 EST
Article-I.D.: pttesac.380
Posted: Wed Feb  4 00:23:46 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 03:58:32 EST
References: <17128@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, San Francisco
Lines: 45
Keywords: AmigaDOS, MINIX, UNIX, GNU

In article <17128@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@shadow.berkeley.edu (Mike Robinson) writes:
>[Will MINIX have a line-eater?]
>
>
>I have giving some thought recently to the future configuration of my Amiga
>(CPU, OS, mass storage, etc.).  In particular, I was thinking about the
>inevitable port of MINIX to the Amiga.

Geez, sure I'd like to see unix on my Amiga.  I use unix at work
and AmigaDos at home.  It would be great to have the same environment
in both places.

One day can we come up with a standard, whatever it may be that
will allow us to run *any* program?

The closest thing I know to a standard is BASIC.  And that is the
only reason I like BASIC.  I can count on it more than I can count
on anything else.

I consider BASIC an application though.  I'm looking for some
kind of an OS that is standard.  EVERYBODY in the world is trying
to put *their* OS out and hopes that it will become a standard.

I'm getting old and tired (>40).  If only I could get a standard
OS -- I wouldn't care so much if it was CPM 1.4 -- just don't keep
feeding me newer fancier operating systems that are different.

Get me something basic that I can expand upon.  As more and
more people us it, set more and more standards and add more and
more features -- just so long as the basics still work.

Start off with read(), write(), ...

I think I'm just a lonely voice in the distance, but while
I've got it I'm going to voice it.
~.

Marnix

<Standardize shoe sizes and the rest will be a piece of cake.>

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