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- From: robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 19:21:38 GMT
- Organization: The Dungeon
- Message-ID: <4dgts2$i7j@news.jhu.edu>
- References: <92747544038@PAPA.NORTH.DE> <1850.6581T1132T2235@idefix.wu-wien.ac.at> <4cs6ri$no8@serpens.rhein.de> <hmAVx*Y3f@yaps.rhein.de>
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- In article <hmAVx*Y3f@yaps.rhein.de>,
- Arno Eigenwillig <arno@yaps.rhein.de> wrote:
- >
- >AmigaOS is nice within its design axioms. Let's not try and stretch it
- >beyond them. DOS and Windoze have already demonstrated that this leads
- >to bloat and kludginess.
- >
- >If we need a very tight integration of memory, files and arbitrary
- >high- and low-level I/O streams, let's take Un*x right away and not
- >half-heartedly make AmigaOS a bad imitation.
-
- You are forgetting just one thing. AmigaOS was designed back when 1 meg
- of memory and a 20 meg drive cost a fortune and fast CPUs were unheard
- of. Today Microsoft can write the most ridiculously bloated OS with all
- the features they want to, because Intel's newest chips are so
- ridiculously fast as to nicely accomodate all the extra "features".
-
- You are basing your entire theory on the assumption that the Amiga will
- never move away from anything better than a 68040. Well, if it doesn't,
- then AT should not even bother altogether, because it would be a
- completely wasted effort. But if they do use new, enhanced CPUs,
- OBVIOUSLY they should make the OS bigger, better, EVEN if it requires
- more resources.
-
- UNIX was written decades ago, and I assume the basic "axiom" was to
- incorporate all imaginable features into an OS, no matter what the cost
- in resources. It was OK, because UNIX was not intended for the public
- anyway. TODAY computer systems are powerful enough to comfortably run
- UNIX on a home computer.
-
- So basically you would like to base your AmigaOS on hardware standards
- that date back to 1985? That's what you seem to be saying, since you
- pointed out that the basic rules for AmigaOS, which were created 11 years
- ago, should still be adhered to today.
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