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- From: Gareth T <Tick@twichy.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 96 19:09:03 GMT
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- > It's no secret that Win95 needs ram to breathe. If your experience has
- > been only on low ram machines, you really can't comment on the
- > multitasking ability, you can only complain about the ram consumption. I
- > have run a dozen busy-looping programs that write constantly to the
- > screen (and share a .dll!) at once and they all run apparently at the
- > same time. This was while a dense MIDI file was playing at a fast tempo,
- > and no notes were missed. Accessed a Hard disk, still no notes missed.
- >
- > Win95 DOES multitask. You've just never used it on a system which had
- > enough ram to breathe, you're using 16 bit apps, or you're letting Win95
- > automatically manage your swap file and vcache. Also, programmers are
- > just now learning to do multithreading, but it can happen; I've seen it.
- >
- > The apps don't get the cpu on as regular a basis as in AmigaDOS, but the
- > Amiga runs out of resources far more frequently for me. I've never run
- > out of memory for graphics or apps with Win95. Multitasking includes the
- > ability to have many apps open at all, and on the Amiga this is only
- > possible with very small apps.
- >
- > Don't forget, not all of the Amiga's apparent multitasking ability comes
- > from preemptive multitasking. It comes also from coprocessors, and
- > therefore multiprocessing. You can't think of AmigaDOS as a pure
- > multitasking environment.
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- What coprocessors? Anyway you say you ran out of resources, so
- what amiga were you using? I can quite happily do everything i need,
- infact more than i can keep up with. When comparing computers, why don't
- ou compare like ones ie, a 12meg pc with a 12meg ami, oh and on the palying
- the midi file, what is so good about being able to access a disk without
- a note being missed? I can load the CPU up to 100% and access the disk and
- oh look not a note is missed. And are you really dull? incase you hadn't
- notice you have posted to 5 amiga news groups, is it that had to just post
- to c.s.a.advocay or is that too had for your Pee Cee???????
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