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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 07:34:50 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Kevin Taddeucci (kevint@sr.hp.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- This tell that the amiga OS is bad for programmers in genreral.. more
- or less depanding on the methode you choose to write code.
-
- But beying a firmware/software quality assurance manage I'm sure you
- know where to rate the amiga OS for programming env, right?
-
- Stephan
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