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- From: "Robert S. Iacullo" <eagle@serv.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 02:40:41 -0700
- Organization: A.C.C.O.
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- howard daniel joseph wrote:
- >
- > Duanne Barry (dbarry@groomlake.mil) wrote:
- >
- > : I've just spent the last 2 months coding a large and complex algorithm
- > : on a Unix box (Sun Sparc 10).
- >
- > : I've have made hundreds of critical bugs that generally
- > : just cause the entire code to blow up (eg. memory overwriting, runaway
- > : loops, etc). But never ever did any of my bugs actually crash the Unix box
- > : (ie. it never needed a reboot) due to the lovely memory protection.
- >
- > Well, there are two ways to go about this;
- >
- > 1) Don't write shitty code.
- >
- > 2) Write shitty code on a platform that supports shitty code.
- >
- > 3) If you want to take the shit out of your code without crashing
- > a system without memory protection, whack your shit around in a more
- > robust environment and then send your shitless code to the Amiga. :)
- >
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- > My views are my own, and not those of my employer or UIUC. Happy Jim?
-
- I'd say the Amiga OS is a toy OS like the Porsche 911 is a toy car.
-