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In article <4335ku$np8@orion.cybercom.net> jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>From: jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel)
>Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
>Date: 12 Sep 1995 05:25:50 GMT


>: >
>: >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?

It was a rethorical one.

>:
>: 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.

I doubt that seriously. I've seen WinCrap on a DX66 with EIDE and a VL gfx 
card.

>:
>: 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.

Tell me your's please.

>:
>: 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.

You will run much later out of RAM on an Amiga. That's the point.


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