Atari Mega Archive 1/Atari Mega Archive - Volume 1.iso/lists/mint/l_1199/1105

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From: Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: xfs and such
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 21:53:34 MET DST
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>; from "Juergen Lock" at Feb 26, 94 5:23 am

>
>  hmm.  well without (t)fork, execv etc and one global environment for
> all processes i think i'd still have a hard time running un*x sources...
> (or what about real tty devices?  ptys?  virtual consoles?  networking?)

First of all, most users just don't care. They want to run GEM apps in parallel
and Mag!x does that very nicely.

>
>  i guess if those people had put their work in improving MiNT instead of
> reinventing it everyone would be better off now.  oh well...

Second, nobody gets paid for improving MiNT. And there *are* people who
have to pay their bills, so they can't afoord to put their efforts into
something like that. Besides, the AES too has to be improved.

Go ahead and show me how you can persuade a user of GEM programs to run
MTOS on his Mega STE with 2 MB, when he has seen Mag!x before :-)

P.S.: There's no point in discussing this. I like MiNT, and I like Mag!x.
Sometimes I run MiNT, sometimes MTOS, sometimes Mag!x. Sometimes even
MTOS on top of Mag!x. Both systems are different, but for multitasking
GEM applications, Mag!x really is more usable.

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