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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Whirled UNIX bashing
Keywords: unix amix amiga
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Date: 24 Feb 90 06:14:07 GMT
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In article <9796@cbmvax.commodore.com> ken@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) writes:
>[Unix is a trademark of AT&T]
>
>What does Unix provide you that the Amiga does not?

Do you have a death wish???!!!

>If there is some feature missing
>from the Amiga that you cannot live without, let us know!

Okay, you do...  How about these:
	Resource tracking
		Ability to kill errant tasks.
	Virtual Memory
	Shared data on hard disks
	User file protection
	Wide range of network abilities.
	High-end color video cards.

And we won't even get into the lack of business software [little to do with
								Unix...]
>Unix has it's place, but it does not cure all problems.  AmigaDOS
>will still be there long after Commodore releases Unix.

Both very true.  I am, in fact, no lover of Unix, but there is much still
missing from my Amiga environment.
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Ken Farinsky -- CATS               Commodore Business Machines
>PHONE 215-431-9421         UUCP  ...{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!ken
>--------------------------------------------------------------

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Think you can, think you can't -- either way it's true."  Henry Ford