janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx) (01/15/89)
In article <3663@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) writes: |In article <299@wn2.sci.kun.nl> janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes: |[ ... material deleted ... ] |> |>I wouldn't call the Amiga 'poorly documented hardware'. There is |>something called '(Commodore-Amiga) Hardware Reference Manual', |>published by Addison/Wesley, that contains (almost) all information |>you normally should not want to know. And besides, the Amiga already |>has a proper multitasking operating system. |> |>-Olaf Seibert | |I agree that C-A has the Hardware Ref. and that *should* point out all the |necessary details to get any OS ported. I have not had the fortune of laying |my eyes upon this doc, but if it is anything like the manuals I *DO* have, |it may be quite cryptic or incomplete in its presentation. For instance, [example about doing Exec IO with various devices] The principles of Exec IO are explained in the Exec manual, so the things that remain the same across all devices are not repeated all over the place. |I also agree that the Amiga has a multitasking operating system. What con- |stitutes "proper" is all relative. [explanation of a number of differences between unix and AmigaOS] If I paraphrase your words this way, I must agree that AmigaOS is not Unix, and of course it isn't. Each has its own good and bad points. -Olaf Seibert