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- From: zrzm0370@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Joerg Scheurich)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.105945.16912@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 10:59:45 GMT
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- In article <9208170409.AA05185@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> lithgow@upjomon.usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
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- >Of course, Acorn's UNIX is much more light-weight, but UNIX is simply too
- >heavy for any single-user work. And what advantages does it offer?
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- 1. It supports a orthogonal multitasking:
- (processes are rather independend from others eg. try to use the
- change-directory-command in a few taskwindows ...)
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- 2. virtual memory system:
- With it you can handle big data very simple, cause the length of your
- arrays (and programcode itself) is not restricted by the available
- RAM-memory.
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- 3. a lot of easy portable, freeware/shareware/Publicdomain software
- Just a example: did someone ported g++ or mtc to riscos ?
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- 4. Unix become a industrial standart for higher range computers.
- Compared with UNIX is RISCOS very exotic ...
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- There are a lot of advantages to have UNIX on every platform (maybe this is
- not true on the Commodore C64 ...)
-
- so long
- MUFTI
-