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- From: linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville)
- Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.164215.3212@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
- References: <1992Nov13.080654.874@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Nov16.223302.6261@ncsu.edu> <jbickers.0in6@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:42:15 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- In article <jbickers.0in6@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- >Quoted from <1992Nov16.223302.6261@ncsu.edu> by linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville):
- >
- >> Finally, for those who devalue high processor speeds, try getting 30-40 back-
- >> ground processes running and then tell me how well your Amiga compares to my
- >> PC running OS/2.
- >
- > What do you mean here? I've got 26 tasks going at the moment, and
- > none of them are extraordinary. I'm using a "remote shell", ie
- > I've dialled into a shell working through the serial port, so I've
- > not got a module player or a newsreader or an editor or other
- > stuff running (I had to quit out of the newsreader to get the
- > following list):
- >
- > ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
- > 1 A590/A2091 IORequest h tw 11 00295CE0 1000 98
- > 2 A590/A2091 SCSI handle tw 12 00299A00 1000 98
- > 3 CNX pw 5 003644B8 3200 94
- > 4 CON pw 5 00290CB8 3200 94
- > 5 console.device tw 5 00287700 4096 90
- > 6 DF0 pw 10 0028A0E8 2400 130
- > 7 DF1 pw 10 0028CAB8 2400 130
- > 8 dh0:utils/smartdisk sc bw 3 0 002BEDC0 20000 270
- > 9 DH0 pw 10 0029B0D8 2400 130
- > 10 fast pw 10 002A0E08 2400 130
- > 11 getty -B19200 -A -7 -M bw 4 0 003136F0 20000 478
- > 12 input.device tw 20 00283492 4096 86
- > 13 JDMouse pw 1 002C04F0 2048 156
- > 14 misc pw 10 002A6A70 2400 130
- > 15 NULL pw 5 002F7D40 500 158
- > 16 PATH pw 10 0031B5F8 4000 98
- > 17 PowerSnap-Handler bw 2 5 002ECE88 4000 110
- > 18 ramlib pw 0 0028F3B8 2048 262
- > 19 RAM pw 10 00294FD8 1200 678
- > 20 report cr 6 0 0037A4A0 20000 386
- > 21 RexxMaster pw 4 002AD1A0 2048 162
- > 22 trackdisk.device tw 5 00287F44 512 98
- > 23 trackdisk.device tw 5 0028F144 512 98
- > 24 watchcd bw 5 0 00378908 20000 166
- > 25 WSH_Completer_V2 pw 4 002C1670 10748 886
- > 26 ½ no command ╗ cw 1 0 002D36C0 4800 2690
- > ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
-
- OH MY GOD!!! You mean, you people objected to my counting editors and drawing
- programs, yet you are going to count the 'NULL' device and other device drivers
- as running processes!!! Give me a damned break!
-
- > Are you trying to say OS/2 can't do this, or what?
-
- Just the opposite. I was saying that everytime I had seen an Amiga get more
- than 15-20 real programs loaded, that it had practically died.
-
- John W. Linville
-
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