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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <2813@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 14 Oct 88 10:57:24 GMT
References: <3590.AA3590@heimat> <9028@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <9028@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, kgschlueter@violet.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter) writes:
> I'm concerned with the speed of native amiga implementations when run
> (on the same processor) simultaneously with UNIX.

This is why I want to run UNIX tasks under AmigaDOS. UNIX is not a realtime
system, and managing a windowing environment is a soft-realtime task. With
AmigaDOS as the base, you'd still get the prompt response of the Amiga. With
UNIX as the base, nobody would use the Amiga software. It's written to assume
lightweight processes.

It's like the problems of porting UNIX software to VMS. In UNIX, starting a
new process is cheap. In VMS it's very expensive, so expensive that most
users spend most of their time in a single process environment that programs
are loaded into. So UNIX programs that use 'system()' all over the place
become very slow under VMS or Eunice.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?