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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 16:01:33 GMT
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- In article <4c7b92$1g7k@huey.cadvision.com>, bros@cadvision.come says...
- >
- >mba@datashopper.dk (Michael B Andersen) wrote:
- >
- >>If!. Our beloved OS is going to "hack it" against the big boys, it's
- critical
- >>that all "RE-BOOTs" be removed, in other words, IMHO people will be looking
- >>for OS's that don't "break" when programs fail, in the coming years. So I
- find
- >>it crutial that the operating system is crash proof, and I don't see any
- way
- >>that can be done without memory protection.
- >
- > This is nothing new. Having an OS that doesn't crash is a BIG
- thing. As for
- >going up against the 'big boys' the only two operating systems that ADos 3.x
- >or the new version might have problems with is UNIX and Apple's new OS.
- >
- I think OS/2 Warp is pretty good. It's a bit slow on my 486DX2 with 16mb
- of ram, but works well. I can and have crashed it though. It's very, very
- rare when the underlying OS crashed though. Usually the GUI or system
- message queue hoses and you're pretty much dead in the water unless you have
- Watchcat or something. OF course UNIX and X Window have the same problem,
- but if the UNIX machine has a text terminal connected, you can kill the
- X server. You may loose your work.
-
- I can handle apps crashing, but I don't like it when the OS goes south. I
- had plenty of experience while trying to run Pine on my Amiga. I had to give
- up.
-
- Fred Heitkamp
-
-