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In <GERHARD.GRUBER.95Jun20112336@atusel16.aut.alcatel.at> Gerhard.Gruber@aut.alcatel.at (Gerhard Gruber) writes:

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

>>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. 

 Just to point out here.

 There is a difference between multitasking well, and getting work done.

 512K is hardly enough RAM on an Amiga to be useful.  After 2.04 came out,
and with the overhead of having a harddrive, I would not recommend anything
less than 2 Megs as a minimum.

 Still pretty good.

 The downside of not having virtual memory is that when you finally do fill
up those 2 megs or whatever, you don't get anything done at all.  VM allows
you to continue working, although slowly.

 However Windows has it's resources problems which stop you from working
long before you run out of memory. :(  Hopefully fixed in Win95, at least it
seems to be in my beta.

>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.

 My understanding is that Microsoft does not use C++ to write it's apps,
they are still using old C code. :)

Steve
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