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From: harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL problem is the nature of personal computers.
Message-ID: <8692@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 11:31:11 GMT
References: <7967@g.ms.uky.edu> <1363@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: CCI CPD, Irvine CA
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In article <1363@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Security and convenience are opposite goals. You (the personal computer
> market) rejected the security of UNIX because it was a little inconvenient.

	Well there is more to it than an inconvenience. You need an MMU, 
which means you need a 68020 (unless it's a custom MMU). Then you need a
bloated OS like UNIX to support users that are not on your machine to
compete with your "resources". To have UNIX (or for that matter ANY multiuser
OS) you need a hard disk to deal with these LARGE issues. Add to that,
the overhead and "non realtime" response of such an OS.

	We is talking HUGE bucks for this unsupported condition (for now!).

	But to be fair, I have absolutely no objection to a Unix OS that is
backward compatible with AmigaDos, I just hate having a "dual" personality
and incompatible machine that I have too boot and blow away to change 
environments. I live in "environments". Give me both at the same time please!
Then I'll vote!
	
	BTW, all my indicators say Unix is just around the corner
for the Amiga!

	I just wish like hell it will act like the Amiga!

	My dream? 

	All these "nasty copy protected" and barfo tasks can live in their
own space within the Amiga croaking OS space and do what's wrong, I don't care.

	CLICK!

	Another Amiga OS! Another "process" under UNIX.

	Kinda like multiple logins, except its mutiple Amigas! Well more
precisely, mutiple environments, like debugging this package, compiling this
package, you get the idea. 

	Hell UNIX (AT+T, 20% stock owners of Sun as of today) doesn't hold the
riegns on inovation anymore. Methinks the Amiga is perfectly poised.
	
	Yeah!

	Just "tweak" UNIX a bit to give the "foreground OS" a huge scheduling
bias.   Like right now, in real time!   Yeah I like it.   Uh, wait, UNIX is not
real time 8^(.    Well fix it, damm it!   Like Charles River Data Systems. The
shoe fits, wear it. Wear it big time. Go all the way.

	Shit, Im telling Apple how to do it. Apple reads this you know!

	Does anybody have a vote on this in anyway?

	Hello?

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