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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
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- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 22:19:23 GMT
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- NeuroMancer (bthompx@es.co.nz) wrote:
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- : 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.
-
- UNIX was designed by programmers, for programmers.
-
- : 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.
-
- Development of Plan 9 has been suspended whilst the developers try to come
- up with an alternative to Java.
-
- :
- : 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.
-
- Use of UNIX is still increasing, but at a slower rate than the increase of
- WinNT et al. As PCs begin to give workstation performance, the need for
- expensize workstations is decreasing.
-
- I know which I'd prefer, though.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
-