Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Semicoherent flame about Amigados.
Message-ID: <672@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 03:39:09 GMT
References: <8802181936.AA19659@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> >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.

This is definitely a point in its favor, though UNIX on the IBM-PC/XT does
not have an MMU and doesn't seem to generate as many errors. *But*, I've
not been talking about situations where I crashed out during a write. That
sort of thing I expect. What I'm bitching about is that I lose stuff when
everything's just coasting along fine, too...

ALSO, when an error does occur UNIX recovers *much* better than AmigaDOS.
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