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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
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- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:34:58 GMT
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- Sander Pilon (pilon@cs.utwente.nl) wrote:
- : 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.))
-
- NO NO NO NO NO NO! These features are what is desirable to NOT have in an OS.
- The reason modern OS's as you put it, have these features is because the
- software is badly written and *bloated*. All of these features, as you say,
- slow down a system. If the computer and OS is designed well you shouldn't
- need them. This is why the AmigaOS is VERY VERY GOOD.
-
- : btw: i'm not a mac fan. The only mac i advocate is Mac Donalds :-)
-
- How could you possibly eat at Mac Donalds? ;-)
- : Sander
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
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