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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Next Amiga?
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Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 03:01:11 EST
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In article <617@fmsrl7.UUCP> wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) writes:
>Seriously, folks, is U**x really all that wonderful?

No. Unix started life on a small system, supporting a couple of users.
It's since moved to large systems, supporting hundreds of users. Some
of the changes to make that work have not been pretty; some of them
have not been made.

Unix started with the wrong set of basic objects (files instead of
ports+messages). In the original Unix environment it didn't matter
much. It matters a lot now.

The Unix documentation SUCKS. I've been saying for 10 years that the
important part of the Unix docs are the sources. Compared to them, the
stuff for AmigaDOS is wonderful. At least they TRIED to tell you how
to write a device driver. With Unix, you get no such help (of course,
there may be people shipping Unix with just that, and I know there are
people who've done real docs for Unix). I should dig out my random
collection of humorous posting based on the Unix documentation.

On the other hand, Unix has one of the nicest sets of development
tools I've ever run into. The only thing I've even heard of which
might be better is Interlisp. If we could get all those tools on an
Amiga, that'd be great! As for Unix itself, the box is slow enough as
it is. Why make it worse?

Oh, yeah, the people suggesting porting the v7 clone to the Amiga:
That's the right one to use. V7 is as the "common subset" of the sysV
and 4BSD lines. It also hasn't suffered nearly as much random growth
as modern Eunices. Still no longer small and tight, but better than
the other choices.