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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Whirled UNIX bashing
Keywords: unix amix amiga
Message-ID: <9796@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 15:26:59 GMT
References: <11888@baldrick.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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[Unix is a trademark of AT&T]

For reference, I am a developer support person (CATS) for Amiga DOS
and Amiga Unix.

In article <11888@baldrick.udel.EDU> okay@tafs.mitre.org (Okay, S J) writes:
>
>They are knocking the best hope for survival the Amiga has,

The Amiga will survive quite well without Unix, thank you.
The Unix market will provide additional sales, but we are not
dependent on it.  Both Unix and Amiga systems have their places.

>Their characterization of UNIX as nothing more than another OS that
>multi-tasks is unbelievably short-sighted.

What does Unix provide you that the Amiga does not?
Unix is just another product, it is not the cure-all that many
people make it out to be.  If there is some feature missing
from the Amiga that you cannot live without, let us know!

>too "But the average Amiga user doesn't care about UNIX". Hey!, I do!!...and

Do you forsee a Unix box in every home?  Or perhaps on every desk in
the corporate world?  Sounds to me like you have never had to
administer a Unix system, although you clearly use Unix at school.
Most casual users would not be able to set up a Unix system, much
less properly shut it down.  Then you get in to re-configuring the
kernel...

>Here are my ultimate plans for my 2000...tell me if you think something like
>
[lots of stuff, including]
>3. AMIX (or whatever incarnation CBM's SVR4 comes out as)

Does this mean that you are not going to use AmigaDOS at all?
I hope that you can find software to do all of the video and
graphics work.  Also remember that Unix is not real-time, so
the animations may not work so well...

Unix has it's place, but it does not cure all problems.  AmigaDOS
will still be there long after Commodore releases Unix.

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