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- From: 1726@topcity.mn.org (Michael M. Rye)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Advantages
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 03:26:08 GMT
- Organization: Minnesota Regional Network (MRNet)
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- >dcorn@metronet.com (David Corn) wrote:
- >>
- >>>In article <4e03sm$d01@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>,
- >>>wahlmann@euler.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- >>>wrote:
- >>
- >>>>AmigaOS ALWAYS multitask, and depends not on what type of app you're
- >>>>running
- >>>>(there are no 16bit apps :-) ).
- >>
- >>>No? Lots of KS 1.1 apps didn't work under 1.2, and lots of 1.2 apps
- >>>didn't work with 040+ processors. The 030 killed lots of programs.
- >>>Having >512k RAM screwed up many programs. I still remember NOFASTMEM and
- >>>lots of other similar programs. Or how about DEGRADER? Remember that?
- >>>Perhaps you're still forced to use it?
- >>
- >>You've got things mixed up. This has nothing to do with 16/32 bit
- >>issues. Lots of older Amiga programs crashed due to using undocumented
- >>features of the old OS's (just as many Windows-apps). Other programs
- >>did rely upon timing based on busy-looping the 68000, others just
- >>didn't account for chip-mem or the on-chip cache of 68020+.
- >>Whatever the reason, iIt was still a pain though.
-
- DC>I'm aware of that; the point is that there are, even now, significant
- DC>problems with older Amiga software, or software written with certain
- DC>hardware in mind for the Amiga's 000 or ECS/OCS only.
-
- And this is the computer's fault??? NOT!! Bad programmers, yes.
- Hell I have some programs that don't work on my A1200. The reason
- for that is because those programs were written at a time when the
- A1200 didn't even exist yet. Explain to me how people are supposed
- to write software for a computer that doesn't exist, and still get
- it right and working properly. Now there's a virtual machine!!!!
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