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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac ][ bashing / blitters are not everything
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Date: 10 Aug 88 09:09:34 GMT
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>> 	-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