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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Three Amigos: Amiga, Mac, and NeXT  (yea right)
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.191126.25064@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 19:11:26 GMT

In article <72147@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu (Doug Boyce) writes:
> Why should the kernal be larger than most??????

Because the NeXT's O/S is based on Mach 2: it's got most of the standard BSD
kernel running as a task under Mach. It's not a 4BSD emulator: it is BSD
running under another O/S.

> Let's change the subject.  Are there cheap CD-ROM drives available for the
> Amiga and MAC?

Commodore is either selling or about to sell one so that Amiga users can take
advantage of CDTV software.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
