Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mac ][ bashing / blitters are not everything Message-ID: <8808100909.AA00265@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 10 Aug 88 09:09:34 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 30 >> -It doesn't multitask worth a pint of sour owl shit either, though it >> seems to be acceptable to the Mac users (better than what they had >> before anyway). > >Funny, we run A/UX (Almost Unix) on our Mac-II and it multitasks just >fine. Even though A/UX shipped a year or 18 months late, it is finally >here. Where is Amiga's Unix, so Amiga users can stop reinventing 10 >and 20 and 30 year old software and start moving forward? >-- >John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com > "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it, > Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it" > John, surely you have been following the various arguments on *THAT* issue. The jist is essentially: You might be able to run an operating system on some machine and get multitasking, for instance OS 9 on an Atari, but that doesn't let you run all the old software under multitasking, does it. I.E. the software under to original/standard OS. After all, one can run UNIX on just about anything these days. If you have a need to run UNIX (and there are many good reasons to do so), then everything is just dandy for you, but if 99% of the users of the machine and 99% of the software for the machine is using the MAC-OS, you cannot truely say that the multitasking UNIX provides solves the problem in general. So in your specific case: good, fine, great, solved. But everybody else still has their book open to the same problem. -Matt