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- From: mreckt@cscip.uni-sb.de (Martin Recktenwald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Multiplatform Development
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:09:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Saarbruecken, Germany
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- John J. Karcher (jkarcher@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : >b) Event Handling
- : > I love the event driven way the Amiga works. I heard the Mac
- : > more or less polls. Is this true? How about other OSes?
- :
- : Windows and friends are event driven in a way similar to the Amiga. You
- : should have no trouble getting used to this. In fact, Windows provides
- : _more_ message types than the Amiga in some cases.
- :
- ... and OS/2, too.
- But OS/2 uses callbacks for event-handling.
-
- : >d) CPU/Memory Architecture
- : > I love architectures that are based on a linear address
- : > figure this
- OS/2 uses a flat memory model.
- OK, that's not true, it's really using a segmented memory model, but
- each segment is 4 GB, that should be enough?
- (4GB should be enough for everyone! ;-)
-
-
- Martin.
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