mo@prisma (05/22/89)
"True Multitasking???" This phrase would imply there is a "False Multitasking." I just wish the Macintosh would get an operating system of any non-trivial sort. However, being stuck with a Mac that can't have an MMU, I will probably solve the problem by buying either a fast 386 clone and run marginal Unix on it, or buy a SPARCstation and run something closer to real Unix on it. There. That should offend EVERYONE! -Mike
peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (05/24/89)
From article <9700004@prisma>, by mo@prisma: > > I just wish the Macintosh would get an operating system of any non-trivial > sort. However, being stuck with a Mac that can't have an MMU, If you want to see trivial, have you seen MS-DOS lately. Even version 4.0 is a joke. The Mac may not be Unix, but it is sure a far cry from what the competition is stuck with... -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) (05/26/89)
< 4.0 is a joke. The Mac may not be Unix, but it is sure a far cry from < what the competition is stuck with... Thank goodness it's not Unix. If it were Unix, the file system would be about three times slower. AT&T could learn something about file systems from Apple... Tim Smith
rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) (05/29/89)
In article <18826@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes: >< 4.0 is a joke. The Mac may not be Unix, but it is sure a far cry from >< what the competition is stuck with... >Thank goodness it's not Unix. If it were Unix, the file system >would be about three times slower. AT&T could learn something >about file systems from Apple... Funny, I don't notice that file access seems significantly slower on my Mac under Unix as opposed to under MacOS. Not that this means that either one is going to win any prizes for speed. Both could stand to learn a lot from the work UC Berkeley did on speeding up the Unix filesystem. Check out the paper "A Fast File System for Unix", by McKusick, Joy, Leffler, and Fabry (ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, vol. 2, pp.181-197.) Or just ask anyone who has used a BSD system before being condemmed to the purgatory of System V :-). -- Richard Todd Fido:1:147/1 USSnail:820 Annie Court,Norman OK 73069 Try one of these: rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us, rmtodd@killer.dallas.tx.us, rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu or ...!sun!texsun!uokmax!rmtodd.