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Deven> AmigaDOS?  More elegant than Unix?  Don't make me laugh.

In article <26900@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu
(Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:

Mike> Why should you laugh? Are you really that unschooled in OS design?

On 5 Aug 89 13:21:11 GMT,
peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) said:

Peter> Because unlike you he understands that AmigaDOS is the name of
Peter> the Tripos derived file system. The rest of the system, the
Peter> Exec, drivers, etc..., are together called AmigaOS.

Indeed.  Actually, you can legitimately call it "Exec" collectively,
while "exec.library" is the more specific portion.  Besides, "Exec" is
harder to confuse with "AmigaDOS"... :-)

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Mike> Elegant is hardly the word. Of course, if you just want a
Mike> "here's a pair of fd's" type interface, that's not hard to build
Mike> on top of PIPE:.

Peter> If you want it transparent to the programs being piped, it sure
Peter> is. The only decent implementation of *that* is Bill Hawes' PIP
Peter> device, which uses a non-standard call to get a pair of file
Peter> handles that really do work like UNIX pipes. It's a botch.

Basically, it's a kludge to workaround the fact that it was left out
from the beginning.

Deven
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