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- From: mike Redrobe <mike@redrobe.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 02:04:55 GMT
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- >Someone wrote:
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- >> >Memory protection is one, is it really worth the added overhead? I
-
- >IMHO, yes, it is 100% worth the marginal overhead. I could mention any
- >of a zillion reasons, but here are a few:
-
- > * Right now, one cannot safely do program development on an Ami which
- > has been doing some long-duration background task without risk of
- > crashing the machine and loosing all the work the background task
- > has done. I do a fair amount of programming, so this is annoying.
-
- I agree its easy to crash an amiga during program development (especially
- my programs ;) ...but I don't really get any crashes here which arent due to
- the 1st run of an aminet download..
-
-
- > * Even without programming, just running a major app can be dangerous.
- > I feel my Amiga is pretty stable as far as Amigas go, but I often
- > have one reboot necessary per 1-2 weeks (of fairly intensive use).
-
- then try running MS Word/Excel repeatedly....
- MS tech support openly admit they lose 6% of allocated memory every time
- they're closed !
- doesnt take long for this 6% to build up into a crash... few hours if you
- start/close as needed (16 meg machine)
- I'm talking about 3.1 here.....not used NT much
-
- > Compare this to my Unix system at work with memory protection that
- > has been up continuously for two *years*. No crashes, no reboots,
- yeah unix if pretty much bulletproof...but 2years is an exaggeration surely?
- someone did a crafty reboot every month on you? ;)
- I take it that unix system is in continous use?..does it run X-win too?
-
- >Without protection, you can be tolerably stable for hobbyist use, as the
- >Amiga is now, but you're never going to get to the level of stability
- >you can get to with memory protection. I want to be able to safely
- >compile and debug my latest program, or try something I downloaded from
- >aminet, while I'm 5 hours into a Lightwave render without the major risk
- >of crashing the machine.
- yep..mentioned that one above ;)
-
- >> >whole system, but really all that anyone needs to do, is not run
- >> >unknown programs when they have something important running. Well
-
- >That is necessary, but not sufficient. Even if I stick to major, well
- >know applications which are very stable, such as ImageFX, FinalWriter,
- >Lightwave, etc, I still get occasional crashes.
- I use FW daily never ever crashed.... YMMV
- > It doesn't happen very
- >often, sure, and I usually do take the risk now. But it *does* happen.
-
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-
- Mike
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