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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0j2v@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 17:10:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.080654.874@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Nov16.223302.6261@ncsu.edu>
- <jbickers.0in6@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Nov18.164215.3212@ncsu.edu>
- Organization: TAP
- Lines: 74
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- Quoted from <1992Nov18.164215.3212@ncsu.edu> by linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville):
-
- > 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
-
- I didn't (object to your counting editors and drawing programs). I
- _could_ go to the trouble of starting up all these programs...
-
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- 39 RAM pw 10 00294FD8 1200 678
- 40 report cr 1 0 002D3090 20000 386
- 41 RexxMaster pw 4 002AD070 2048 162
- 42 tnews -e0 bw 5 0 003F5AA8 20000 1390
- 43 trackdisk.device tw 5 00287F44 512 98
- 44 trackdisk.device tw 5 0028F144 512 98
- 45 Virus_Checker(C) pw 19 0038C758 4000 86
- 46 vlt bw 4 2 0034A830 20000 1254
- 47 WSH_Completer_V2 pw 4 002C1040 10748 886
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-
- > as running processes!!! Give me a damned break!
-
- They _are_ running tasks. Context switches and all when they get
- used.
-
- > > 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.
-
- Then whoever was doing the loading was a fool.
-
- > John W. Linville
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