building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Thu Jul 26 23:39:34 2001

It was thus said that the Great Eric Dittman once stated:
>
> > Two examples of the results of that... AmigaDOS, BeOS. There are others.
>
> AmigaDOS is different, but I don't know if it has all the features
> I'd like. As far as I know, BeOS tries to be somewhat Unix compatible.

  Well, AmigaDOS has processes, threads, semaphores, message ports,
messages, preemptive multitasking, multiple file systems and long file names
(on such filesystems that support that). It's not multi-user so it lacks
file permissions but it's a single user OS anyway. What else do you need?

  -spc (AmigaDOS was one of the more fun OSes to program for ... )
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 23:39:34 BST