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In article <1332@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> Vidhyanath K. Rao <vkr@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
)I would say that AmigaDOS looks like a project from a B student: A good
)concept, but implementation shows lack of imagination and more importantly,
)inability to adapt to a different evoirment: Relying on BCPL thruout is only
)one instance of it.

I think it looks more like a project that no student and few faculty
can understand: one with real world pressure and economics.  "Inability
to adapt to a different environment," indeed.  If you don't know the
history, you are then only showing a "lack of imagination" for the
things that can happen when you try the "business thing" for real.

You don't think people really sat down in a classroom and said, "Screw that
boring C stuff, let's do half the thing in BCPL!  We'll still get an 'A'."

Have you got any preferred system that's running on over a million machines?

	jimm

Is this stuff going to be on the test?

-- 
Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing	   	"... the signs are very ominous,
{cbmvax,well,oliveb}!amiga!jimm          and a chill wind blows."
							- Justice Blackmun
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