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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 02:04:56 GMT
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- >gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine) wrote:
- >>The argument is that memory protection is needed to compete, but to
- >>compete the Amiga needs to have some real advantages over the other
- >>OS's. Right now one of it's advantages is low memory use, and fast
- >>operation (as compared to systems with comparable CPU's, and clock
- >>speeds).
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- > The problem with the Amiga, right now, is that there are no currently
- >selling systems with comparable CPUs and clock speeds.
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- True..and its mindboggling that my A4000/030 outperforms my P120 (win95) in
- most stuff I do (unless I do some number crunching stuff.)...
-
- >>How much do you think memory protection will slow the Amiga down?
- <SNIP> reasoning
- >I'd guess that the overhead to support MP and VM with a full-featured CPU
- >with MMU builtin would amount to significantly less than 1%.....lost in the
- >noise.
-
- mouse tracking takes up much more cpu-time than that under amigaOS ;)
- I never did understand that.....
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- Mike
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