Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari-bashing (was Re: Looking for an Evangelist)
Message-ID: <3216@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 5 Jan 89 12:38:13 GMT
References: <474@ur-cc.UUCP> <6847@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <12835@cup.portal.com> <428@ho7cad.ATT.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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Oh yes, let's get some terms straight.

In article <428@ho7cad.ATT.COM>, mgh@ho4cad.ATT.COM writes:
> As far as comparing the two machines op sys, I find GEM totally superior to
> Workbench....

Neither the GEM desktop on the ST nor the Workbench on the Amiga have anything
to do with the operating system:

		Amiga		ST		Mac		IBM

User		Workbench	GEM Desktop	Finder		COMMAND.COM
interface	or
(shell)		CLI

User		Intuition	GEM		Toolbox		none
interface
(library)

File system	AmigaDOS	CP/M-68K	MacOS		MS-DOS

Operating	Amiga EXEC	none		none		none
system
(kernel)

Library		Amiga EXEC	none		Resource	none
manager						manager

Operating	Libraries	D/As		D/As		TSRs
system		Drivers				Resources
extensions	Handlers

Multitasking	Inherent	Third party,	Multifinder	Windows
				partial.	Switcher	Third party,
								partial.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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