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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:05:24 GMT
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- John Sheehy (jsheehy@netcom.com) wrote:
- : In article <4kba6r$1na@news.uni-c.dk>,
- : Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk> wrote:
- : >
- : >Imagine how an Amiga user feels when Window gives you "General application
- : >fault" (or something like that) from Word, Wordperfect or Turbo Pascal.
-
- : That's right. If the system gets thrashed, they have to reset the system
- : manually. On the Amiga, you get a fireworks display on the screen just
- : before it reboots itself.
-
- : With Win95, errant apps are generally closed down with all system
- : resources reclaimed.
-
- Oh come on. Only if you have at least 16meg of memory. Word causes my 486dx2
- 8meg RAM to crash consistantly. Yes the system! You do indeed get the
- General Application Fault message - then with the press any key to proceed,
- guess what happens? Thats right Win95 dies _big time_.
-
- : >Add
- : >that to the feeling of not being able to multitask these programmes (so you
- : >can't write a programme and the documentation at the same time).
-
- : As far as I know, you can only type into one program at a time, on any
- : system.
-
- True!
-
- : If you're talking about having multiple apps open, this has been
- : possible in 16 bit Windows for quite a while, and Win95 and NT
- : pre-emptively multitask 32 bit apps.
-
- No. Multiple Apps open is generally known as Task sharing. I don't know
- about NT but 95 is the *worst* pre-emptive multitasking OS I've ever had the
- misfortune to come accross! It tries, but fails!
-
- : >And then
- : >there is the thing about formatting disks...
-
- : What thing? I'm formatting a floppy right now as I type this, and it's
- : very hard to tell, other than barely hearing the step motor in the
- : drive. Well what do you know? The drive stopped and I felt no surge in
- : performance!
-
- Yes, but have you tried formatting a floppy from a shortcut on the desktop?
- Does it recognise the drive? NO. So go to explorer! Format the floppy from
- there. OK. Now let me just minimize that explorer window so I can get to my
- desktop again. What do you mean I can't access that window? I thought this
- was pre-emptive multitasking! Obviously NOT.
-
- : BTW, where can you buy floppies that aren't already formatted? How often
- : do you format floppies?
-
- What are you talking about? All new floppies come as unformatted media.
- Without exception! Perhaps your floppy dealer formats them for you? Very
- bizzare. If this is the case, I'd be really careful about viruses.
-
- : >I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
-
- : I don't have any such constraints on my PC. Don't know what you're
- : talking about.
-
- What they are talking about is the fact that the Amiga can multitask properly!
- Windoze cannot. There is a big difference between Task Sharing and
- Multitasking. Multitasking means that applications perform work concurrently.
- Task Sharing, only the application in focus does anything!
-
- : John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
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