Article-I.D.: ucbvax.11489
Posted: Tue Jan 21 14:07:33 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 20:24:22 EST
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Ahh.... yes, the loader is rather slow. Even with lc1 in memory
it takes a couple of seconds to load. That is a definate No No, since
improvement would mean a complete revamping of the system.
> On to the file system: It's cute for a toy computer...
I agree. The filesystem should have been the CORE of the Amiga.
I'm not saying that all OS's need to have the filesystem as a core, but
on the Amiga, it would have been a giant forward leap. Right now, the fs
seems to be only half implimented.
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Somebody posted to the net that I was not being specific enough.
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My dream of the Amiga OS: (Definately Berkeley UNIX Biased)
(A) UNIX like filesystem
(B) Screens, Windows implimented w/ /dev/ device drivers
(C) I like the extended file-name idea (con:0/0...), put it in
(D) IOCTL'S
I believe in separation between user and hardware, through
file descriptor's and ioctl's, not through system structure's.
-Matt