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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 11:45:04 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960331200116.136611A-100000@matisse.its.rpi.edu>,
- Kengo Hashimoto <hashik@rpi.edu> wrote:
- >Well, yes, that's the *mainstream* application of unix. But when was the
- >last time something like Windows was running on PDP-10? And for
- >preemptive multitasking, Linux does it much better than OS/2 Warp,
- >Windows 95, or Windows NT. Last I checked, System 7X did *not*
- >preemptively multitask. Now it is true that most unix systems are the
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- Also, System 7X is _huge_. You have to count that ``dark matter'' of the Mac
- that is hidden in its ROM. If you moved all the ROM code from the Mac into the
- actual bottable OS, you would end up with a ``kernel'' that is larger than
- probably any UNIX.
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