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Article #12801Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 01:33
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 01:33
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In article <3834@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > The semantic difference between AmigaOS and UNIX is very small. And apart > from fork(), all the advantages are on the side of UNIX. ...except for realtime response. There is no standard Unix solution. There may be a few other things the Amiga arguably does better, as well. The way drivers are implemented on the Amiga may be better...I am thinking the Amiga mechanism may provide greater opportunities for concurrency than current monolithic kernel implementations of Unix. The driver programming environment is friendlier, too (more task-like...what a surprise ;-) -- Amiga drivers can sleep and stuff without hullabalutions. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "Woof!" -- Free Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request Message-ID: <3855@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 May 89 01:33:11 GMT References: <8905170500.AA25917@jade.berkeley.edu> <3834@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15