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From: janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga version of Minix
Summary: Read the Exec manual
Message-ID: <305@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 14 Jan 89 19:11:26 GMT
References: <22766@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <1877@ast.cs.vu.nl> <299@wn2.sci.kun.nl> <3663@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <3663@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) writes:
|In article <299@wn2.sci.kun.nl> janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes:
|[ ... material deleted ... ]
|>
|>I wouldn't call the Amiga 'poorly documented hardware'. There is
|>something called '(Commodore-Amiga) Hardware Reference Manual',
|>published by Addison/Wesley, that contains (almost) all information
|>you normally should not want to know. And besides, the Amiga already
|>has a proper multitasking operating system.
|>
|>-Olaf Seibert
|
|I agree that C-A has the Hardware Ref. and that *should* point out all the
|necessary details to get any OS ported.  I have not had the fortune of laying
|my eyes upon this doc, but if it is anything like the manuals I *DO* have,
|it may be quite cryptic or incomplete in its presentation.  For instance,
[example about doing Exec IO with various devices]

The principles of Exec IO are explained in the Exec manual, so the
things that remain the same across all devices are not repeated all
over the place.

|I also agree that the Amiga has a multitasking operating system.  What con-
|stitutes "proper" is all relative.  
[explanation of a number of differences between unix and AmigaOS]

If I paraphrase your words this way, I must agree that AmigaOS is not
Unix, and of course it isn't. Each has its own good and bad points.

-Olaf Seibert