Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL problem is the nature of personal computers.
Message-ID: <3137@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 17:21:16 GMT
References: <557@gethen.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <557@gethen.UUCP>, farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) says:
> 
> The same thing is true, to some extent, for ANY OS of any sophistication.
> It's not limited to Unix.  As it is, with AmigaDOS, to do any amount of
> real development work, I have to shuffle three floppies in and out of
> two disk drives.  Are you going to claim that this is convenient?

As compared to running UNIX off of floppies, it's HEAVEN.  Let's compare
Pineapples with Pineapples, here, eh?

There are some specific design implication in UNIX that make it run slower
on the same hardware than the AmigaOS will run.  Thing such as it's file
based message passing.  These are the same things that make it work well
with memory protection; messages are passed by copying, not by reference.
That copy just takes additional time, that's all.

> Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 

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