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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Semicoherent flame about Amigados.
Message-ID: <8802181936.AA19659@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 88 19:36:39 GMT
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>UNIX is multitasking and has a much greater reliability track record than
>AmigaDOS (or PC-DOS), so you're just wasting your time making that the
>scapegoat. UNIX uses real sectors, and UNIX checks for and recovers from
>disk errors.

	UNIX also has an MMU.  In all my life I've only crashed a VAX running 
UNIX 3 or 4 times.  UNIX may or may not use real sectors, because it is
the drive hardware, not UNIX that determines this.  We used to have a
Perkin-Elmer something or other running 4.2BSD ... It had a CDC drive which
reads and writes entire tracks at a time... you want to read a sector, it
reads the whole track.  You want to write a sector, it writes the whole
track (via an intelligent track caching scheme).

					-Matt