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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory (in which Dave say good things about UNIX)
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Date: 18 May 89 17:55:33 GMT
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In article <6905@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>> it does not ease the way for eventual file mapping which is where UNIX is
>>> going these days.

>> Hmmm, you seem to have Unix etched in your head. 

>Again, IMHO. You can never ignore what's being done in UNIX.  Period.  Even if
>some parts of UNIX aren't even close to the level of what's done daily in the
>Amiga OS, there are many lessons to be learned from UNIX.

> -- AmigaOS can benefit from advances in UNIX theory

First off, I really like UNIX, but it is a bit annoying when people
imply that feature X was invented by UNIX.  File mapping is not a UNIX
feature, other OSes have had it for some time (Multics is the biggest
example, VMS is a common example).  Same goes for shared libraries,
paged kernels, etc.  The point is some UNIX vendors realize the
usefullness of these features and add them in, in the same way that
other OSes borrow ideas from UNIX.  What doesn't happen are photo-
copies of features from other systems.  A new feature has to fit in
well with the underlying OS.  I get the feeling that some people are
saying "It's in UNIX, we have to put it into Amiga, if it doesn't
mesh, we'll force it".  (study the concept, not an implementation)
People often describe the Amiga as "unix-like".  To Amiga owners here
at work, it is VMS-like.  Other people have described it as a mixture
of MS-DOS and Mac (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts).
I'd like to see Amiga get its own personality.  (Amiga personality
would be making file mapping available as a device driver, etc.)

>though I still don't have anything as nice as Franz LISP on my Amiga.

Sigh...  Someday.

Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
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