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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 07:38:36 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
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- Mark Constable, regarding your message ' Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW' -
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- >Patrick William Mackin wrote:
- >>
- >> jamesm@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au writes:
- >> >
- >> > No home OS will last the next 20 years.. Maybe not even UNIX..
- >>
- >> Of course not UNIX. UNIX is the most outdated and cryptic
- >> language out there. I mean, it is already almost 30 years
- >> old!!! It is already dying off, and I'm glad.
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- >Why do you find something you don't understand or use so offensive ?
- >Unix is not outdated, it is VERY mature. FYI all the leading internet
- >development happens on unix first and 95% of people connecting to the
- >internet do so via unix systems. What is so bad about that ?
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- >Unix maybe cryptic but for an OS that offers so much power it has to
- >be sophisticated. If cryptic=power then gimme cryptic anyday.
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- >The Amiga is a wonderful personal user OS and unix is an excellent
- >multi-user server OS.. Windows and Macs have *some* excellent apps
- >because of their market mass.. is not all groovy and as it should be?
-
- >If you don't need to run a large network server and don't need to use
- >some kind of industry-standard application and do like to play with
- >a groovy OS then use an Amiga, for sure.
-
- Unix is an aging dinosaur. It is large, cryptic, and full of holes. Modern
- design, and evolution, have found that small, simple units are best, and
- more reliable. A truly modern os has a very small and fast kernal
- (microkernal), and possibly a hardware independant bulk os, which may be
- made up of shared library functions and virtual devices. A more modern
- design is a completely message-based os.
-
- Or so i have read. Never the less, unix's successors are being designed
- today, including by the people who designed unix. The new OS is called
- 'Plan 9'. Wether it replaces unix or not will largly be based on the
- computer enviroment at the time.
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- Nothing that unix has could not be added to amigados. Unix in no way
- represents the apex of os design possible with modern computers. It is
- simply well supported compared to alternatives. IMO.
-
- ...... Brendan
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- "Occasionally my Universe intersects with Reality"
- - Thompson the Great, c.1996
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