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In article <3s4a39$59t@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:

>From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
>Newsgroups: alt.comp.shareware,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.sources,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbovision,alt.fan.bill-gates,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,alt.sources,aus.sources,comp.sys.ibm.pc
>Date: 19 Jun 1995 11:54:01 -0500
>Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services   +1 713 968 5800

>AmigaOS does this, too. And supports multiple video modes, so you can have
>high quality graphics and NTSC-compatible graphics for video production as
>well. In 512K.

>>There also has been a large demand for a standardisation of
>>the user interface. This also is a good decision. Add OLE,
>>multitasking, audio support, ...

>AmigaOS does all of this as well. It does some of it better. The Amiga desktop
>is a lot more intuitive than Program Manager, for example, and it's got a lot
>more control over the environment. In 512K.

And not only this. You can also multitask quite well in this 512K.
Without even swapping to the disk. 

>It has nothing over UNIX, other than having a bunch of apps already
>written for it. It's just big, and bloated, because there was nobody in
>a position to say "let's do it right" who had the faintest idea of what
>"doing it right" involved.

What I wonder is; Microsoft uses C++ to make this crap "object
oriented". This means that the performance is decreasing but the
advantage should be that the software would be easier to maintain.
Microsoft fails in not only in writing a fast OS they are also failing
in maintaining this crap. At least they could come out with a stable
OS if not with a fast one.

-- 
bye, Gerhard Gruber
FIDO: 2:310/81.11
e-mail: Gerhard.Gruber@aut.alcatel.at   (only until 26th June)
        gruber2@ibm.net                 (prefered)

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