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From: miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Richard Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga good for hacking??
Message-ID: <1124@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 14:26:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 14:26:16 1987
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In article <2705@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) writes:
>Carefull, there - the stuff written in England is what provides all
>the nice message passing, library primitives, resource allocation etc.

Sorry Mike but the Amiga's EXECutive, designed and developed by Carl 
Sassenrath at Amiga in CA, provides the elegant multi-tasking message 
passing capabilities in the systems kern[ea]l.  It also provides the 
library and device facilities, does resource allocation and manages all of 
the system lists. Carl S. also wrote the design specification for an OS to 
layer on top of EXEC.  His OS would have: done resource tracking, better 
file management, resembled more traditional OS's, and interfaced a lot nicer 
with EXEC and the rest of the Amiga environment.  

Unfortunately, lack of resources at Amiga and hassles with a contracted 
company resulted in a last minute dependency on the BCPL based TRIPOS 
port by Metacomco. :-(
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Rich Miner  ULowell-Cntr for Productivity  !ulowell!miner  617-452-5000x2693