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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12546 comp.os.linux:54379 comp.os.386bsd.misc:862 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!uum1!salsa!gorp.ssesco.com!rhealey From: rhealey@gorp.ssesco.com (Rob Healey) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX Message-ID: <CCu0s1.29o@ssesco.com> Sender: news@ssesco.com Organization: SSESCO References: <michaelv.747084422@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>> <CGD.93Sep3160517@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <michaelv.747102277@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 13:43:12 GMT Lines: 22 In article <michaelv.747102277@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In <CGD.93Sep3160517@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > >> amiga "production" > >>re: amiga: just because binaries aren't available on -lamp doesn't >>mean it's not in production use... there are many places carrying >>binaries for it in europe, but their names all escape me right now... > >Finally, a reason to buy an Amiga... :-) I'm almost tempted. > Hey now! B^). I'll pit the 3000's 0.9 I/O performance against any 386 or 486 based system any day! I hear the screen/console code doesn't take full advantage of the hardware yet tho. And there is the issue of shared, or better yet dynamic, librarys. I run SVR4 on my Amiga tho so I'm not 100% up to date on 0.9's status. -Rob