Re: Amiga vs. ST

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From: Doug Moen
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1985 19:22

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>The multitasking feature (of the Amiga) is a
>definite plus, but again here it is not multitasking in the way us
>unix users are used to. Since there is no memory management the 
>programs have to be well behaved and are limited to 32k segments.

Not true.  Programs can be arbitrarily large (since addresses are relocated
at process startup time) and they don't have to be well behaved
(since address faults, etc are trapped on a per-process basis).

I got this information from one of the people who designed the Amiga's
multitasking operating system.  All in all, I was very impressed
by the number of things that they got right.
-- 
Doug Moen (watmath!watcgl!kdmoen)
University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab

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Subject: Re: Amiga vs. ST
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