From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc (plan 9 compilation time) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 06:04:08 GMT
In article <20sscl$brc@usenet.mcs.kent.edu> delozier@condor.mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier) writes (about Oberon):
So what's left out? Preemtive multitasking, VM, heirarchical directories
(though DOS provides these) TCP/IP, etc. etc.
When you leave out preemptive multitasking, virtual memory, a hierachical
file system and networking, what's left is not very much. In fact it's
a lot less than you get with AmigaDos.
Oberon is neat and it's better than the alternatives for seriously
underpowered systems, but it just doesn't do what I require. Actually
it doesn't even come close.
Unfortunately Oberon was obsolete before it was born. Single CPU
operating systems that can't network are relics from the past, not the
wave of the future.