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- From: sdc395@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Simon Clayton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 12:26:39 GMT
- Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
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- 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.
-
- > This is completely different from coding on an Amiga 4000
- > (which i did for a few years), where a serious bug just takes out
- > the entire machine (thus significantly lengthening coding time)... from
- > this experience, AmigaOS looks like a complete toy to me, even though the
- > machine has a MMU available... same goes for the current AppleOS, which
- > has a pretty outside (the GUI) but garbage inside.
-
- You're absolutely right. The last thing the Amiga needs is crap
- programmers. People who rely on the OS to catch their bugs shouldn't
- even be attempting to code large and complex algorithms.
-
- [SNIP]
-
- > (btw, WordPerfect for X-Win has been available for some time now)
-
- Oh great! WordPerfect! I wonder why UNIX is so unpopular? How many
- applications is that now, two?
-
- > So, to conclude this monologue, in my view the Amiga will not be taken
- > seriously until it has fast hardware and a robust operating system...
-
- '060 not fast enough then?
-
- > I don't see this happening for at least 2 years unless someone ports
- > Linux to the upcoming PowerAmiga (if it ever comes out).
-
- Memory protection would be a good thing and I think we can expect to see
- it in future versions of the OS. Until then, we poor Amiga users will
- have to rely on the plethora of well written applications for our
- machine. Life's a real struggle.
-
- --
- Simon Clayton //
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