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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Unix for the Amiga?
Message-ID: <808@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 16:15:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.808
Posted: Sat Sep 28 16:15:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 18:23:52 EDT
References: <133@symplex.UUCP> <152@graffiti.UUCP> <286@anasazi.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Summary: Why didn't they use Unix in the first place?

In article <286@anasazi.UUCP> will@anasazi.UUCP (Will Fuller) writes:
>Why port UN*X to a perfectly friendly computer that has its own
>multi tasking OS and a C compiler? Whatever human interface it has 
 
     Well, I've said this before elsewhere but, multitasking is only
part of the 'full kit' that many people want these days.  I'm constantly
talking to people who want to access their work computers at home and
or their home computers at work.  That means they need the remote
handling functions and login handling which are generally added after
the fact (ie.--kludged, as is 'BYE' in CP/M and the 'host' utilities
I've seen for MS-DOS and a lot of other systems).  Once you write a
'host' for a multi-tasking system, full multi-user simply doesn't take
much more code (if any).  OS-9 on the Color Computer is fully multi-user
and I've been using it for over a year now on a 64K system.  There are
no disadvantages, only advantages.  As for 'real Unix', well, that's
more complicated.  Unix isn't as efficient as OS-9 or some of the other
Unix 'like' operating systems.  Personally, I feel that OS-9 is freind-
lier than Unix as well.  However, the reason to have 'real' Unix is
to allow software portability.  'C' isn't all that portable.  In fact,
it's not even as portable as Microsoft BASIC.

>can't be any worse than UN*X. Most of the good tools associated
>with UN*X are to be had elsewhere for a song. Why drag along all
>of the multi-user stuff? If a computer in my bedroom didn't let
>me get at a file, I'd pull its plug!

     Why won't your system let you get at a file (I assume your Unix
system has some kind of trouble which you are referring to, otherwise,
I can't see what you're talking about at all here.)?

>
>How about it Amiga owners, show us the Commodores worst command
>syntax. I'll place my bets that they are all UN*X kindred.
(Not my problem.  I haven't decided whether I like Amiga yet or not.
 I like the Atari ST-520 so far, but ...)

>-- 
>William H. Fuller
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