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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stability of Commodore/Amiga
Keywords: Unix, Amiga, OS/2, DOS
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Date: 4 Mar 90 21:46:00 GMT
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In article <3881@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>a better operating system would be needed... OS/2 is much too system
>specific to really become popular...  Unix easily portable and with some mods
>can be installed on just about any system with the capabilities to do so...

True, but the rumors are that OS/2 will be ported to platforms other than Intel
80x86...I do not know the time frame for such an endeavor...

>Another thing is, OS/2 is not a fairly programmer friendly environment...

OS/2 is a very programmer-friendly environment.  The only thing that isn't
friendly is the CLI, and that's because it mimcs the DOS CLI.  The OS/2 kernel
and PM are both very powerful and ratheer easy to use.

>MS-DOS will inevitably fall away because of it's incapability to multi-task.
>As long as CBM keeps coming out with improvements on there OS, it would be
>a great OS for a computer with it's power.   As far as the Machintosh is 

AmigaDOS is a far superior operating system to OS/2, IMHO.  Intuition is not
as polished as Presentation Manager, but it could get to that point with a bit
of hard work (which I hope we will see in 1.4).  The programmer's interface to
the system is not as clean as it is in OS/2, but I believe the programmer 
ultimately has more power under AmigaDOS.  (By the same token, it is more
difficult to achieve similar results under AmigaDOS, at least for simple tasks.)

So, the real question is...why do I always seem to end up defending OS/2 here,
and the Amiga to IBM fanatics??

 -Chris
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