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In article <411tic$gbg@sundog.tiac.net> Jim Williams, williams@tiac.net
writes:
>Maynard Handley <maynardh@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>Well let's see. The first versions of UNIX omitted DLLs, graphics, 
>>threads and SMP from the OS. All pretty well understood basic stuff I 
>>would say. Gee, those UNIX designers must have been real idiots. I'm sure 
>>it had nothing to do with the fact that the OS they were designing had 
>>the same sort of memory constraints as the original mac.
>>
>
>I got through the above paragraph and didn't even bother to read the rest
>of your post.

>Absolutely none of the "features" you've mentioned existed when the first
>version of Unix was written -- well, there were plotters and some basic
>oscilliscope based graphics at the time.  It was at least another 10 years,
>and probably more like 20, before SMP hardware was invented.

So you are saying that graphics existed in no form in the early 70's?
Nonsense. I think what you are trying to say is that the target machine 
for UNIX didn't support graphics. Just like the target machine for the 
MacOS didn't support protected memory or VM. Strange how different the 
cases are.

>Also, DLLs are a Microsoft oddity.  Vectored libraries are ok, if you
>don't mind the performance hit.  The functionality as been added to Linux
>and I'm not planning on doing anything critically fast so I'll probably
>use them.

So let me get this straight. You feel that an Protected Memory and 
Pre-emptive Multitasking are ESSENTIAL OS features. Yet you feel that a 
dynamic linking mechanism (call it DLLs, CFM, Component Mananger, 
whatever) is optional. Strange how your view of what's essential in an OS 
corresponds closely to the one OS with which you are familiar.

Maynard