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- From: rvg@marketgraph.xs4all.nl (Ruud van Gaal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Message-ID: <120eoaw60.alamito@marketgraph.xs4all.nl>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 14:14:18 CET
- References: <4dj4fq$9du@sinsen.sn.no> <4djk4u$skb@serpens.rhein.de> <zp3ad7aC8hJvZ1a@blank1.blanker.ruhr.de> <4e09se$p7l$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In <4e09se$p7l$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> accolyte@sydney.DIALix.oz.au (Troy
- Till) wrote:
-
- >Peter Elzner (HAWK@blanker.ruhr.de) wrote:
- >: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
- >:
- >: > >So what's the point in using the OS?
- >: >
- >: > I am tired to explain this again and again....
- >: >
- >: > 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.
- >:
- >: Even more important: If you use the OS instead of hacking direct hardware
- >: addresses, your programs will work on future machines with different
- >: hardware.
- >
- >At the expense of not running so well..
-
- You mean 'not running so fast', 'well' is something different and is not
- applicable to your-home-system-configuration-with-mem-at-$200000-only
- hardware hacking.
-
- --
- Ruud van Gaal
- MarketGraph Visual Automation
- E-Mail : rvg@marketgraph.xs4all.nl
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