Invisible wrote:
> this had real processing capabilities vaguely moddelled after Unix

AmigaOS was farther from being UNIX-like than DOS 2.0 was. The two had 
absolutely nothing in common.

Let me rephrase: What did you think was common about the two of those? 
About the only thing I can think of is they both had pre-emptive 
interrupts.

> [Again, I suppose theoretically you could do the same thing to a Linux 
> distro with enough symlinks. But since I have absolutely NO CLUE how 
> Linux actually works and this does not appear to be documented 
> anywhere........]

I saw a distro that used symlinks to completely "fix" the legacy layout 
of files. So their Linux had a /Programs and a /Library and a /Users and 
so on, not unlike OSX apparently has.

> Ooo, ooo, and... TOKEN RING! Remember that?? Trying to get MS-DOS 
> powered PCs to talk to each other over a token ring network... Never 
> tried it personally, but I watched first-hand, and it wasn't pretty.

I didn't have any trouble with that, except for the amount of RAM it 
took.  Left little for the actual applications.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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