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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
Keywords: Operating Systems, Religion WRT computers
Message-ID: <9616@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 23:09:17 GMT
References: <2134@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <5625@microsoft.UUCP> <917@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Organization: UofW Computer Graphics Lab
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In article <917@mks.UUCP> alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White) writes:
>In article <5625@microsoft.UUCP> w-glenns@microsoft.UUCP (Glenn Steffler) writes:
>>OS/2 is a business oriented OS, with extensive network capabilities, in
>>addition to a rich and quite overwhelming array of multitasking
>>primatives.  OS/2 has memory, and resource protection, vital for multiple
>Overwhelming array of multitasking primitives?
>You've got to be kidding.
>You're right -- it has more than are ever likely to be needed, but
>it doesn't have standard simple ones like fork().

I hate to disappoint you, but fork() is not what most people would
consider a "standard multitasking primitive".  It is a Unix'ism designed
to get over the fact that Unix didn't have any Standard_Multitasking_
Primitives.  Considering how old it is, the things that most people
would consider standard were still being argued about long after
Unix was developed.

Standard?  SRR, Monitors, Semaphores, maybe pipes (naaa), etc. ...
Fork()????
Nope.

>It doesn't have very good ways to inherit things like signals.
Inherit?  Sounds like you're getting back to fork ... but, yes that
would be needed for things like process groups I suppose.

#define standard (I_LIKE_IT)

Blair
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