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- From: kevint@sr.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
- 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: 14 Apr 1996 01:48:08 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard MID Firmware
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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.
-
- ( complaints about Amiga OS deleted )
-
- Hmmm! As a firmware/software quality assurance manager this tells me
- more about your programming style/process than it does about how good
- or bad any OS is.
-
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