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Xref: sserve comp.os.minix:22411 comp.os.386bsd.misc:552 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3438 comp.os.linux:45901 Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!daffy!daffy!quale From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc (plan 9 compilation time) In-Reply-To: delozier@condor.mcs.kent.edu's message of 30 Jun 1993 20:17:25 GMT Message-ID: <QUALE.93Jul1000408@spock.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: University of Wisconsin -- Madison References: <C8wC29.9qq@world.std.com> <C9E4J4.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu> <FOX.93Jun29142638@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> <741438841.9926@minster.york.ac.uk> <20sscl$brc@usenet.mcs.kent.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 06:04:08 GMT Lines: 19 In article <20sscl$brc@usenet.mcs.kent.edu> delozier@condor.mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier) writes (about Oberon): So what's left out? Preemtive multitasking, VM, heirarchical directories (though DOS provides these) TCP/IP, etc. etc. When you leave out preemptive multitasking, virtual memory, a hierachical file system and networking, what's left is not very much. In fact it's a lot less than you get with AmigaDos. Oberon is neat and it's better than the alternatives for seriously underpowered systems, but it just doesn't do what I require. Actually it doesn't even come close. Unfortunately Oberon was obsolete before it was born. Single CPU operating systems that can't network are relics from the past, not the wave of the future. -- Doug Quale quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu