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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac ][ bashing / blitters are not everything
Message-ID: <2413@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 7 Aug 88 21:03:41 GMT
References: <8808061931.AA02869@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <5053@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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The rest of your article is right on... the blitter isn't the problem
with the Mac II. The problem is purely software. *Apple's* software. A/UX
doesn't count... a Mac-II running AUX is just another workstation (JAW-II).

In article <5053@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> Funny, we run A/UX (Almost Unix) on our Mac-II and it multitasks just
> fine.  Even though A/UX shipped a year or 18 months late, it is finally
> here.  Where is Amiga's Unix, so Amiga users can stop reinventing 10
> and 20 and 30 year old software and start moving forward?

Where's realtime performance from UNIX? I'll give up my superfast context
switches when they pry my cold, dead, fingers off the keyboard. UNIX on
the Amiga is harder than on the Mac, since to keep all the nice features
of AmigaDOS it will have to run on top of it... whereas the Mac was still
waiting for an O/S when A/UX came along.

One point to note, about the blitter... since the Amiga's memory is split
into two busses, you can run code out of FAST memory while the blitter is
banging away at CHIP memory.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?