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Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
: >
: >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?
:
: It's in the hands of the programmers to avoid shipping buggy software with 
: their whole power. Sounds a bit idealistic, I know, but so it has to be.
:

It's also in the hands of the OS to protect the user's machine from crashing
due to a bug in one of the programs he's running.  And developing software in
an environment without memory protection is a nightmare compared to the
alternative.

:
: Useful software must not be as bloated and recource hungry as MS always
: states.
:

Damn right -- good old "ls" and "vi" are useful pieces of software -- but
what's your point?  Heck, MS's own MS Works is damn useful and a whole lot
smaller than MS Office.

: >
: >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.
:
: Curious. Just that mentality provides you with more and more bloated PC-OS's. 
: Why should a system developer write an efficient OS when all the people runs 
: into the shops to buy more RAM, bigger HD's and a faster processor?
:

Didn't you just answer your own question?

:
: Why must
: I have a Pentium with 100MHz to perform my tasks as fast as on my Amiga with
: a 68040/28MHz? Very curious...
:

You needn't have a P100; a 486/33 will do quite nicely.

:
: BTW, Unix runs smooth in 16MB of Ram, AmigaOS in 4MB. That's more than "some 
: memory", isn't it? 
:

It would be, if your numbers were accurate.  They aren't.

:
: System performance depends on the data throughput. The lesser the OS swaps
: the faster it is. That's one great advantage of AmigaOS over other OS's.
:

When I run out of physical RAM, I'd much rather have my OS swap than stop.

: Juergen Wahlmann 
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Jerry J. Shekhel
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