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In article <43mm8d$rl6@orion.cybercom.net> jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>From: jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel)
>Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
>Date: 19 Sep 1995 15:05:49 GMT

>Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
>: >
>: >Nah, any run-of-the-mill 486/33 with a decent local bus graphics card.
>:
>: Funny. He can't be serious.
>: NO PC OS including LINUX runs as smooth in that amount of RAM than
>: AmigaOS do. Get it.
>:

>Get what?  What exactly is your argument here?  "AmigaOS is smoother"?  What
>the hell does this mean?  Can you prove it?  I've used both AmigaOS and Linux
>extensively, and for me, Linux blew the doors off AmigaOS in terms of
>efficiency, multitasking, robustness, stability, reliability, and intelligent
>memory utilization.  Crash-happy AmigaOS was a joke in comparison, and slow
>too.

You should read more carefully. I've said "in that amount of RAM". With enough 
RAM Linux or NetBSD runs smooth too.
Smoothness means here the responsiveness of the system, which is very poor 
under Win3.11 and OS/2.

>:
>: I got much more work done with my Amiga than on
>: any PC with WinCrap or OS/2.
>:

>So?  Millions of people do *all* their work in Windows, and *none* in AmigaOS.
>So what?  What the heck are you trying to say?

Effiency. You could work more efficient under AmigaOS than under OS/2 or 
WinXXX.

>: >
>: >So?  Does that change the fact that *some* versions of UNIX run happily in
>: >2MB?
>:
>: With a GUI? I think not.
>:

>No, with multiple text screens.

Hahaha. Not competetive IMHO.

>: >
>: >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.
>:
>: Wrong. Programmer's fault. You always HAVE to check wether your RAM request 
>: was a success. 
>:

>So AmigaOS is the perfect choice for people who (a) write their own software
>for everything, and (b) never make mistakes during programming.  Such people
>are always guaranteed to run bug-free software.  Now guess how many such
>people exist.

There are some simple rules you should rely on when programming. Then you 
will get programs that will most likely not crash. Verifying memory 
allocations is one of these rules.


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