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Article #5794Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
From: David S. Herron
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 02:04
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 02:04
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In article <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <298@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes: >> You would either have to make a virtual Amiga running under Unix (can >> you say slow?) > >Hey, Apple can do this on the Mac... and the Mac system software is pretty >screwed up. But Peter ... MacIntosh never made any pretention of being a Real Time system like AmigaDOS does. AmigaDOS programs must be able to control, exactly & precisely, the screen. But if you have to do a context switch at every system call you can pretty much kiss real-time goodbye. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com> <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <david@ms.uky.edu> <- <- Remember: On System V it's "tar xovf", not "tar xvf"!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <8081@gollum.twg.com> Date: 13 Oct 90 02:04:40 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <298@pdxgate.UUCP> <6782@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 21