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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 15:15:57 GMT
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- mike Redrobe <mike@redrobe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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-
- >>Someone wrote:
-
- >>> >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
-
- Get with the program... This is 96... That was the case with windows
- 3.1. This dosn't happen with windows 95 with Office 95.
- Our NT server has been up now 9 months without a SINGLE crash. My
- windows 95 laptop (where I am typing now) stays up and hasn't been
- shut down for 1 month (last time was to change drivers for PCMCIA
- ethernet card). I just close the lid and it goes into suspend mode.
- Then open the lid its up in about 15 SECONDS... Hows that for
- uptime... Which Amiga can do that... PS: I use OFFICE 95, ACCESS 95
- BETA (YES a BETA PROGRAM), INTERNET, NETWORK, PROGRAMMING C++ & VB 4.0
- Pro. Testing tonnes of Shareware and PD software... There couldn't be
- more stuff thrown at the machines...
-
- I wish Amiga BIGOTS would stop hiding behind a shroud and start being
- constructive. (I bet they arnt really Amiga owner only saboteurs)
-
- Without Memory protection Amiga will only be a hobbyist or CHEAP home
- computer. Thats ok if you are selling A500/600/1200 with no FAST RAM
- AND NO HD. But for serious users ie A3000/4000 and PPC who do more
- than play games or wordprocess with FW we WANT and DEMAND MEMORY
- PROTECTION from Amiga Tech. If it doesnt happen then there wont be
- serious software for the Amiga... EVER!
-
- SO AMIGA TECH. IF YOU DONT PUT MEMORY PROTECTION AND VIRTUAL MEMORY IN
- THE OS FOR PPC YOU CAN BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR (and it will be as you
- loose sales) THAT I AND MANY OTHER SERIOUS USERS WILL PUT OUR MONEY
- INTO OTHER MACHINES... AFTER ALL LIGHTWAVE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON OTHER
- PLATFORMS BEFORE THE AMIGA PORT... WAKE UP!!!!
-
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