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From: richard@pnet02.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga: Which replacment OS?/UN*X ??
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Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 20:30:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 20:30:47 1987
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Yeah, this discussion has been raging in the comp.sys.apollo group for a
while, Re: is an Apollo a UN*X box. Apollo has an AEGIS (their OS, not the
company) kernal, on top of which support bith BSD4.2 and SYS5.

Apollo has taken some flak for not being more 'real' UN*X (Gee, just like
XENIX :-) which seems to come from two areas: 1) People who have used only
UN*X and hav'nt taked the trouble to learn UN*X, and 2) People who have
heterogeneous networks (Suns, Vaxen, Aliiants ...) and want to be ablr to
administer these things the same way. I think only 2) is valid.

To this end, Apolo (in SR.10) will have a new kernal that will run AEGIS,
BDS4.2 and SYS5, in a more 'real' manner, ie some of the UN*X components like
/etc/password act more like 'real' UN*X.

Aegis is much more usefull for Apollos, because it knows about distributed
systems at its lowest level; it's not just tacked on. Plus is has a really
neat user interface. After using UN*X for about 12 yearss, I havn't noticed
any real advances in it.

Sooo, I for one would not like to see Amiga become UN*X boxes. Thay can do
better than that. But if they had a common kernal that could support the
current OS and UN*X, it might make everyone happy.

But I still would'nt use UN*X.

Cheers,

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