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Rask Lambertsen (gc948374@tycho.gbar.dtu.dk) wrote:
: > :
: > : The Amiga OS doesn't stop if it runs out of RAM (it doesn't run out of RAM
: > : often anyway, but that is not the point).
: >
: > It *stops* allowing you to run more programs.  And who knows what an
: > individual program will do when the machine starts failing allocation
: > requests?  Many will die horrible deaths.
:
: I can't think of a single one, but I'm sure you know a few million of them.
:

Actually, most will.  I've never seen an application that checks the results
of *all* memory requests.

:
: This is not different on any other OS, is it? Then stop blaming the
: Amiga OS for being worse than the competition.
:

In this respect, the AmigaOS *is* worse than the competition.  The competition
has virtual memory support in the OS.

: | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <gc948374@gbar.dtu.dk>, <e9864029@ebar.dtu.dk> |
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