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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 23:56:22 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- References: <4kd111$kfs@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <4kdfn8$69v@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl>
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- Sander Pilon (pilon@cs.utwente.nl) wrote:
- : In article <4kd111$kfs@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink) writes:
- : > > MY mac is fast and responsive. (Incredibly fast, actually.) Perhaps
- : > >you are one of the previously mentioned Mac illiterates that thinks 5-6
- : > >year old 030 and 040 machines are representative of modern Macs? :-)
- : >
- : > But when it comes to multitasking, MACs are not capable of what an Amiga
- : > can. Compare a 40mhz-040 MAC to a 40mhz 040 Amiga, and the Amiga will trash
- : > the MAC. Same processor, but better results on the Amiga: Reason?! The OS!
- : >
-
- : Your e-mail (.stack.urc.tue.nl) suggests you must know something about os'es.
- : (Unless you're with the mathematics stuff.)
- :
- : Then you must know that the one of the reasons amigo-os multitasks so nicely
- : (yes, it does multitask very well.) is that is lacks all the difficult things
- : like paging, virtual memory, memory protection. I know mac has some of these.
- : It slows down a system, but these things are a absoulte requirement for modern multi-
- : user, multi-tasking systems. (Too bad amiga dont has them. (native.))
-
- : btw: i'm not a mac fan. The only mac i advocate is Mac Donalds :-)
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- The mac do not support mp or resource tracking. and I never use 'my' mac
- with VM enabled... and I do not run virtual memory on my amiga ethier,
- even so its possibly on both OS.
-
- I dont think a new OS with mp would be any slower then the amiga OS,
- and also not much more memory used.
-
- Stephan
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