🚀 go-pugleaf

NNTP-Posting-Host: kalypso.cybercom.net
rganization: Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften Uni Dortmund <ibl-juwa.132.00107710@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de>
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Xref: xlink.net comp.sys.powerpc:64894 comp.os.linux.advocacy:28883 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:78022 comp.os.os2.advocacy:159443 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:141200 comp.sys.intel:60582 alt.destroy.microsoft:10054

Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
: >: >
: >: >Watch Linux multitask and repeat that! Does AmigaDOS really multitask 
: >: >better than Linux?
: >:
: >: Yes, if you count the RAM that's used.
: >
: >No, if you count the functionality AmigaOS lacks.
:
: Please tell me what functionality do you mean?
: MultiUser, Memory protection, virtual memory, the ability to switch the 
: display to other terminals or workstations? 
:

The first three at least.

:
: Agreed, but that are functions a home user OS most likely do not need.
:

Why not?  Is a home user never going to run a program with bugs?  (Hint:
all non-trivial programs have bugs).  Is a home user never going to run
several programs at once, or edit a large image or document, or do something
else which may overcommit physical RAM?  Is a home user never going to do
any kind of programming on his/her computer, hoping the whole system doesn't
go down due to a programming error?  Will a home computer always be used by
only one person?  Do people never use their home computers to do real work?

:
: I have nothing against UNIX, with all it's abilities it's the OS I would 
: prefer against all other PC OS's (unless there is AmigaOS available).
:

Fine.  But please don't tell me that AmigaOS is *better* than UNIX simply
because it chose to leave out a whole bunch of features in order to save
some memory back in the days when it cost hundreds of dollars per megabyte.

By the way, when you figure in the amount of OS code sitting in ROM on an
Amiga, AmigaOS's overall memory usage isn't all that great.

: Juergen Wahlmann 
--
Jerry J. Shekhel
jerry@cybercom.net