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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga System
Message-ID: <2865@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 20 Oct 88 10:39:51 GMT
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In article <4176@pitt.UUCP>, planting@sun16.cs.pittsburgh.edu (Dr. Harry
Plantinga) describes the NeXT box and goes on to ask...
> (The truth now, what would your opinion of this posting have been two
> weeks ago?  Pie in the sky?)

It would have been "I don't want UNIX in my Amiga until they rewrite the
kernel to provide realtime response and clean message passing, and besides
by the time it comes out it'll have to compete with Jobs' $3000 NeXT box".

Yes, $3000. That was the figure he was originally using to justify the beast.

Well, as it turns out Jobs does have a rewritten kernel, Mach. No realtime,
which is a pity. I'll have to continue campaigning for a UNIX that uses the
Amiga EXEC and Intuition the way NeXT uses Mach.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?

	Disclaimer: I accept full responsibility for my own typos.