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- From: mikb@magna.com.au (Mike Benson)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:06:14 GMT
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- In article <Dns1JC.LDt@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (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 UNIX is the most outdated and cryptic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.
-
- UNIX isn't a language, it's an operating system. As a system,
- on the whole, it isn't cryptic - the command names are arcane,
- but only old fogies like me bother with them any more. UNIX and
- its offshoots show no signs of dying. LINUX and netBSD have
- given it an additional spurt of growth, in fact.
-
- Will it last another twenty years? I think so, because the UNIX
- system model is fundamentally sound. It is making the transition
- from 32-bit to 64-bit, just as it made it from 16-bit to 32-bit
- in the 1970s.
-
- Since these are Amiga groups, let me segue by saying I believe the
- Amiga ought to survive, for the same reasons as lots of people like
- to see wilderness survive - diversity is a good and useful thing,
- and it has an aesthetic value all of its own. Think about the Amiga
- OS and the model of the system, and you end up talking about
- efficiency, compactness, code reuse, real-time behaviour,
- multiprogramming, modularity, and object based design.
-
- I think exec.library is a fine piece of design and programming -
- I'd like to see it's programming interface available for small
- embedded systems (perhaps even down to 8 or 16 bit CPUs),
- where I think it would be a great boon.
-
- A year ago, just after C= died, I was contemplating ditching my
- Amiga. Now I'm not so sure. The path AT have stepped onto is
- perilous, but not impossible. Much will depend on how Amiga
- aficionados present their system of choice, on the net and
- face to face. The net can make the Amiga possible again,
- because it allows Amiga users to operate together, in
- more realistic numbers than our geographical separation
- has previously made possible.
-
- There is nothing available on other platforms that can't be done
- on an Amiga, with clever hardware and software design. As a
- community, we've never been short on that!
-
- Perhaps I should have posted this to .advocacy....
-
- Regards,
-
- Mike.
-
- Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket!
-
-