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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 12:01:07 +0100
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- kinnunen@stekt.oulu.fi (Teijo Kinnunen) writes:
-
- >I wouldn't worry about the fact that some kind of OS emulation would be
- >required.
-
- But I do because it is largely nonsense. It eats huge amounts of
- memory and wastes CPU time.
-
- >On PowerPC, it would be reasonably fast.
-
- That's whaht you think.
-
- >Unix systems need a lot of resources, and a guru to maintain them.
-
- NT needs a lot of resources and a guru to maintain them (well, you
- only need it when something goes wrong).
-
- In fact NT needs MUCH MORE resources than UNIX.
-
- >A version
- >of AmigaOS rewritten to be modern could benefit from not being a resource
- >hog,
-
- You want it to be a resource hog.
-
- >I'm suspecting the Amiga will stay in the bottom low-end. You are correct
- >in that low-end machines won't run a rewritten system with MP effectively.
-
- Especially not if you have to emulate another OS. And I don't think
- there is the time for inventing Yet-Another-Proprietary-OS.
-
- >If memory protection were introduced, the only problematic area is
- >interprocess messaging.
-
- No. It is shared access to data structures. If it only were the
- messages we had no real problem.
-
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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