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In article <2h9cih$23i@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
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>    Here are a few things that the Amiga's OS lacks:
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>     Memory Protection

  Nice, but isn't worth the trouble for now.

>     Virtual Memory
 
  Gigamem -  If you really want it.
             I have 9 megs. People who do more ram intensive work
                buy more RAM. It's not that expensive these days.
             Kinda hard to run 30fps full screen animations
                from a HD.

>     Printer drivers (note 1)

  Never had a problem with any printers I've used.

>     Device-independent graphics

  Agree

  Besides standard VGA/SVGA what else has this?
    Don't all video boards require special drivers?

>     Device-independent audio

  Agree

  Who else has this?

>     OS support for structured objects

  Why?

>     Resources (note 2)

  Sounds like you want to MACenize an Amiga. No thanks.  (note 2)

>   note 1: The Amiga's printer drivers are so bad, they might as well not even
>be there.  EVERY program that has anything to do with printing bypasses these
>drivers with it's own drivers, so why are they there?  A person could delete
>the entire devs:printers directory, and programs like Final Copy, PageStream,
>WordPerfect, etc.. would still work fine.

    I have 1 printer, I delete all other drivers. Works perfectly.
    Your EVERY is wrong. I use text editors and data plotting programs
      that use the PRT: device. Often draft copies use PRT: device.
    Yes you could delete devs:printers but ALOT or programs would not
      be able to print. Anything directed to PRT: would be gone.
      Ever do quick text dumps to the printer?
      PageStream stores it's drivers in devs:printers, as do most others,
      so PageStream would not work. :)

>   note 2: This is what the program MUI tries to give the Amiga, and fails
>miserably.  On a Mac, you can use ResEdit to complete alter the user interface
>of ANY program.  You can replace sounds with other sounds, replace objects 
>(bitmapped objects and structured objects), add Baloon Help to programs that
>don't support it, etc.  

   ResEdit. Not familiar with it.
       All my interfaces are fine. Nothing is standardized.
       Programs implement as much configurability as they want.

   Sounds. Don't want beeping requesters.
       Couple sharware/PD programs that offer this sort of thing.

>   The AmigaOS does multitask very well, but it is incredibly antiquated in
>most respects.  It is so effecient because it has virtually no features. 

  And getting better all the time thanks to the wonderful input of
people like you. :)

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>+++++++
> ++++      Marc Barrett  -MB-
>   ++      IRC nick: Cyclone  |  e-mail: barrett@iastate.edu
>   +       Amiga: No excellence, just bullshit


Brian