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- From: tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 13:30:24 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4dtbl0$84n@sinsen.sn.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sinsen.sn.no
-
- (Michael van Elst)
-
- >>So what's the point in using the OS?
-
- >If you use the OS then your program will run on a large variety of
- >machines. It will also run together with other programs on the
- >same machine. You do not have "degrade" your system to run a game.
- >You can run it from HD. You do not have to reboot afterwards.
-
- Sorry to be the one to tell you, but everything you mentioned can be
- accomplished without any special contribution from the OS, and without
- much sweat. Anything which fails to do the things you mentioned is
- simply BAD CODE (except for the multitasking part). I doubt the same
- coder wouldn't make the same kind of mistakes using the OS for some of
- these things.
-
- >Is that reason enough ?
-
- No.
-
- >>You seem to forget that hardware banging programs take over not onl
- >>the display, but the whole machine. Obviously you don't have to avoi
- >>other programs interfering..
-
- >That's what the problem is. Hardware banging programs take over the
- >whole machine.
-
- Can't see the problem here.. Things like demos/games obviously need
- their processing power for themselves. We simply don't have powerful
- enough machines to do it otherwise (yet). In a perfect world everybody
- would use the OS. In a perfect world we would have a perfect OS. This
- is *not* a perfect world.
-
- >>no wonder you think everything can be done just as good/fast with th
- >>OS..
-
- >Do you want to say something ?
-
- I was referring to the "I bet you are a c00l c0d3r" part.. Which was
- actually quite funny, but obviously not to you, otherwise you would
- never have written it..
-
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- Ecc.7.26: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is
- snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God
- shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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