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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 04:08:07
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <4ksu6q$haa@nadine.teleport.com> sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
- >
- > This tell that the amiga OS is bad for programmers in genreral.. more
- > or less depanding on the methode you choose to write code.
-
- It means that the Amiga OS is a _bad debugging tool_--much like my wristwatch is
- a poor screwdriver. An important factor in user-friendly, desktop OS's is that
- the user is not a programmer and the two may have different requirements.
-
- Look at the debugging environment that comes with StormC: It does a lot of the
- protection stuff that eg. unices do, but for the developer. It does not get in
- the way of the user.
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- It would be great IMO to have an add-on layer to the OS that aggressively checks
- and reports everything, but there shouldn't be too much reason for the user to
- run that.
-
-
- > Stephan
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
- The ones marked "URGENT"? Oh, I haven't gotten around to doing those yet.
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