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

:   This is unnecessary, as any well-written program will not write to memory

Memory Protection does allow the OS to keep a reign on badly behaved tasks,
and to prevent one bad task from bringing the whole of the OS tumbling after
it due to side-efects.

Memory leaks are common and are not always a symptom of bad coding. They could
be undetected bugs from the OS,compiler,assembler add on-products. 

: >but it is incredibly antiquated in most respects.

:   Which version of the OS are you talking about?  I'll admit that
: Workbench 1.0 is rather antique...

Sure the amiga has a motif'y workbench, but the underlying OS (AmigaOS) seems
to be very similar to the earlier versions. Has it kept up pace with the
improvements in the pointy-click GUI?

A feature I could well do without is the Software Error screen.

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