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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 03:20:10 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <Dpy2GC.1nn@wiloyee.shnet.org> chaos@wiloyee.shnet.org writes:
- >
- > Because of the lack of memory protection, AmigaOS outperforms any other
- > multitasking operating system with memory protection. you might say that
- > memory and processors are cheap nowadays, but *I* would really like to see
- > how Lightwave on Dec Alpha Amiga would outperform Lightwave on Alpha NT.
- >
- > Now if you tell people that Alpha Amiga runs SoftImage 50% faster then Alpha
- > NT, they would pull thier calculator and buy Amiga OS. If the Application
- > crashes, it crashes and all data is lost, with or without memory managment.
-
- True, data in the application that crashes is lost, no matter what, but we
- are talking about *multitasking* systems here! With memory protection, data
- in other applications survives with no problem, but without it, all your
- running programs and their unsaved data are lost.
- So if you're rendering in Lightwave Amiga, and some other program crashes,
- you've lost whatever Lightwave was working on. In a system with memory
- protection, Lightwave could continue, undisturbed. (And shouldn't you be able
- to use other programs while rendering. That's the point of multitasking,
- isn't it?)
-
- --
- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
-