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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 02:11:07 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
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- James McArthur, regarding your message ' Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW' -
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- >Why flame a good idea :-) IF AT port the OS to every known platform, then
- >the Amiga will last for a long time. IF the AmigaOS gets enhanced to include
- >VM, Memory Protection, etc then what is stopping the Amiga's OS from taking
-
- I'm not so sure about memory protection. It seems to be that it has a great
- impact on interprocess communications, and other things. Perhaps it might
- be better to have better programming tools to hunt out bugs, and to have
- resource tracking.
-
- Another option might be to have optional memory protection. As in, you
- would essentially have two areas where memory runs. A 'old amigados'
- section (perhaps with backwards compatibility as a feature), where much of
- the old software, and most/all of the small programs (patches,
- enhancements, virus checkers, etc) run. In that area, inter process comms
- would be simple, efficent, and fast.
-
- The other area would be for major programs. Perhaps the OS itself would
- reside in part of it. It would be fully memory protected. Here you would
- run your comms program, your word processor, your TCP/IP, directory opus,
- etc. They would have to much around with new communication protocols and
- restrictions, but would be quite a lot more resistant to crash. Each
- program might get it's own block of ram. Programs would have to be written
- to take advanatge of it, otherwise they just default to the old method.
-
- If a program running in the first type of runspace fouls things up, that
- whole section can be cleared, and all the programs loaded into it again, on
- the fly (since the os would know how to do this), patches and all. Like a
- re-boot, but when finished, all the data (Inc. registers, etc) of the 'new'
- type are reloaded, and computing continues on from where it finished...
-
- Or something.
-
- >on the big boys of the computing world - UNIX systems. Linux and NetBSD are
- >taking off since home computer users dont want to be stuck with a buggy,
- >slow OS (ie Windows, MacOS) that crashes alot, and the Amiga could easily
- >replace Net and Linux easily.
-
- If it had a lot more support, and was upgraded.
-
- But the amiga is not the only one heading in that direction.
-
- >Imagine a system with the stability of a UNIX system, the Amiga GUI, and the
- >power of any processor you dream.. Hmmm..
-
- Thats my point. Now imagine it enhanced.
-
- ...... Brendan
-
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- "Occasionally my Universe intersects with Reality"
- - Thompson the Great, c.1996
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