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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <6875@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 19:57:32 GMT
References: <751@boing.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <751@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) says:
> In article <6834@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>in article lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) 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. 

True, it only works for interprocess communications on the same machine.  Though
most of the filesystem based IPCs used in systems like UNIX are completely 
inadequate for real-time systems.  Depends on what you're building the machine
to do.  Which is perhaps why most operating systems are adding, if they haven't
already, multiple forms of IPC.

>>>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.

True, UNIX does come with electronic mail programs.  My point was that there's
nothing truely magical about E-Mail, it doesn't have to have any magic hooks
in the operating system in order to work; it's just an application program like
any other.  Virtually every UNIX distribution tape I've heard of also comes with
a C compiler, and WB1.3 doesn't have that program either.  Which has nothing at
all to do with how well the OS will support a C compiler.  At this point, I
think it would be a real mistake to use any "new and improved" form of E-mail;
the UUCP stuff links us world-wide on any kind of machine, which seems to me
the main point of E-mail.  Incidently, just about no one I know of uses the 
AT&T System V mail programs under System V, they all use Berkeley mail.

> Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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