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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: True Multitasking, and shared code
Message-ID: <190@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 09:03:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.190
Posted: Tue Jun 16 09:03:32 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 00:56:31 EDT
References: <8706040024.AA10895@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <2194@husc6.UUCP> <3934@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: shared text code libraries UNIX
Summary: Symmetry

> Only in the C environment, where the Amiga has to do some extra work
> to provide a Unix-like C environment. If you blow off the
> Unix-compatable stuff and etc., AmigaDOS suddenly does much better.

You can also blow off the "unix compatible stuff" in UNIX. Throwing out
stdio can save you a bunch, and was the only way that  the later versions
of vi could be crammed into the PDP-11. The resulting "bare dos" is
pretty much equivalent in UNIX and AmigaDOS in terms of memory overhead
and programmer interface.