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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
Message-ID: <3855@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 23 May 89 01:33:11 GMT
References: <8905170500.AA25917@jade.berkeley.edu> <3834@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <3834@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> The semantic difference between AmigaOS and UNIX is very small. And apart
> from fork(), all the advantages are on the side of UNIX.

...except for realtime response.  There is no standard Unix solution.  

There may be a few other things the Amiga arguably does better, as well.  The
way drivers are implemented on the Amiga may be better...I am thinking the
Amiga mechanism may provide greater opportunities for concurrency than current
monolithic kernel implementations of Unix.  The driver programming environment
is friendlier, too (more task-like...what a surprise ;-) -- Amiga drivers can 
sleep and stuff without hullabalutions.
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