Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!cae780!leadsv!laic!nova!darin From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX Message-ID: <271@laic.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 18:08:26 GMT References: <8806212030.AA00481@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@laic.UUCP Lines: 15 > :One of the principal foundations of UNIX is cheap processes, > :and this is not possible with a plain 68000. > > Er, since when is the principal foundation of UNIX a cheap process? > Whatever they are, they aint cheap! Actually, I thought they were quite cheap. Of course, I am forced to work on VMS systems most of the time: a SPAWN command back when we had 11/780's was generally frowned upon as being wasteful of CPU, and user's were only allowed a maximum of 1 process. Nowdays, with the 8650, a SPAWN only takes about 5 seconds :-) Darin Johnson (...pyramid.arpa!leadsv!laic!darin) (...ucbvax!sun!sunncal!leadsv!laic!darin) "All aboard the DOOMED express!"