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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <751@boing.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 00:09:00 GMT
References: <24279@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6834@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <6834@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) says:
says:
>
>> Does an Amiga have inter-process communications,
>
>Of course, every real multitasking operating system has some kind of IPC.  The
>whole Amiga system, from the low levels on up, is designed around things like
>messages.
 
This is a simple message passing mechanism that is completely 
inadequate for any ipc between machines. For this a bidirectional byte 
stream is needed that does not rely ptrs to buffers. The data itself must  
be passed. So if you are interested in networks with this amiga ipc you need 
to forget amiga Messages. 
 
Stay tuned for new developments in this area though. This ipc stuff can
be corrected in a newer release of the OS. 
 
>
>>built-in e-mail features,
>
>No more built-in than UNIX.  I know several folks who are using UUCP mail quite
>happily, TODAY.
 
This is not true, electronic mail comes standard on nearly every unix 
distribution tape that I know of. It does not come on the WB1.3 set of 
disks the last I checked.
-- 
Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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