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- From: hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de (Hans-Joerg Frieden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 09:02:41 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Trier
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- Zsolt Szabo (robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu) wrote:
- : You are forgetting just one thing. AmigaOS was designed back when 1 meg
- : of memory and a 20 meg drive cost a fortune and fast CPUs were unheard
- : of. Today Microsoft can write the most ridiculously bloated OS with all
- : the features they want to, because Intel's newest chips are so
- : ridiculously fast as to nicely accomodate all the extra "features".
- "Nicely" is definately the wrong word here. Win95 will still require a
- P-100 and 16 Megs of memory. The memory alone will cost you quite a
- thing, and anything below 8 megs is overkill. It isn't speed alone, if
- you ever heard windows swap out the whole memory just because you push a
- window into the background, you know what I mean. Otherwise, I think
- you're right (Unfortunately)
-
- : You are basing your entire theory on the assumption that the Amiga will
- : never move away from anything better than a 68040. Well, if it doesn't,
- : then AT should not even bother altogether, because it would be a
- : completely wasted effort. But if they do use new, enhanced CPUs,
- : OBVIOUSLY they should make the OS bigger, better, EVEN if it requires
- : more resources.
- I guess the PPC code alone will make it bigger, and I guess that the next
- generation of AmigaOS should include more features than now. If it
- requires 4 megs afterwards, it's ok for me.
-
- Regards, Hans-Joerg.
-
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