Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!ccplumb
From: ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
Message-ID: <15998@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 87 20:04:00 GMT
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In article <139@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> lunge!jesup@beowulf.UUCP writes:
>In fact, the custom OS (called CAOS) was spec'ed by the person who wrote
>Exec, Karl Sassenrath.  I have been told by Andy Finkel that CAOS actually
>somewhat existed on a Sage for a while, before it was scrapped.

Weel, the question everyone's asking is:
Where do I get it?

However, this seems a trifle presumptive.  One lesser, but still
interesting question I've been interested in answers for is:
What does it do?

I.e. what were the specs?  Who knows, maybe the interface is
sufficiently nicer than AmigaDOG that it would be worth writing a CAOS
interface library.  Then, of course, we could get everyone using it,
and could shove in CAOS without breaking the world.  Wishful thinking,
I know, but Minix has proved that there exists a market for second
operating systems, even ones without corporate support.  And gosh,
golly, gee, the hackers of the net could have fun with "their"
operating system.
--
	-Colin (watmath!ccplumb)

"Always listen to experts.  They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
Then do it."	(Guess what *I* read last night?  No, don't answer.)