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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames - Extingushed - fizzle
Message-ID: <7675@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 21:42:47 GMT
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Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article  shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:


Well, I was hoping the thread would fizzle as the title suggests, but...

Comparing the 1.2 release of the Amiga OS in order to make points
is kind of, ummm, silly ?  Yes, that's the word I was looking for,
especially since 1.3 has been out for quite awhile.  So using the
CLI and old filesystem, to name but two instances, while rejecting
the existance of the shell and FastFileSystem for the purposes
of argument does not win any points.  For all purposes the standard
CLI *is* the shell.  And the standard filesystem for hard disks
is the FastFileSystem.  A module does not have to be in rom to
be a standard.


(BTW, the shell having a limited set of internal functions is a 
 rather moot point.  Through the use of the Resident command,
 a large number of functions can be added to the Shell.  When
 a program is added to the shell via Resident, it is added in
 a global manner; each Shell has access to the function)

This is assuming, of course, that there's any point to the argument
at all....


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