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On 19 Sep 1995 14:37:32 GMT Jerry Shekhel (jerry@cybercom.net) wrote:
> 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.

Then download SmartCopy from Aminet. All allocations (not just memory) are
checked. I know because I wrote it.

> : 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.

It doesn't matter where the virtual memory support is. What matters is
how well it works.

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