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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 4 Apr 96 20:18:30 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.828649110@rscernix>
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- In <4ju3qn$rb2@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
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- >In article <danpop.828381256@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
- >
- >>Machten is not a "native" OS on the PMac. It runs on top of MacOS,
- >>which means that any MacOS application can disrupt its operation.
- >
- >So?
-
- Unix has the reputation of being a stable operating system, providing
- preemptive multitasking. Machten, being actually a MacOS application,
- is exposed to all the problems inherent to MacOS applications, due to the
- flakiness and brain damage in the internals of the current MacOS
- implementation.
-
- For those who haven't figured out yet what I mean, a broken MacOS
- application can crash the whole system, including Machten and a badly
- designed one can let Machten starve of cpu cycles, suspending its
- operation for an indefinite amount of time.
-
- If Apple decided to invest money in a Linux port, which would have to be
- given away for free when it's ready, maybe they realized the importance
- of a real Unix implementation to the hardware sales.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
- Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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