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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Beef Sandwich - Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
- References: <1ggn3kINNhoj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Message-ID: <jbono.09j5@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:59:29 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 44
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- >
- >OS/2 is something of a real operating system, yes, but it does crash.
- >In fact, under some situations it crashes a lot. Case in point: a
- >friend of mine ran a BBS system for years off his 1985 vintage Ami 1000
- >with a big but slow SCSI HD. Then he bought a clone (Compaq?) with OS/2
- >and tried to run a BBS. Every couple of days the machine would crash
- >and in the process corrupt his filesystem beyond repair, necessitating a
- >complete restore from backup. That, in addition to all the other
- >problems he had getting serial communication to work under OS/2, caused
- >him to go back to running the BBS on his Amiga 1000. Now he uses the
- >OS/2 machine to play with (hobby) and the Amiga to run the BBS, since it
- >proved to be far more reliable.
- >
- >Not that this is always the case, but my point is that you can't make
- >blanket statements about OS/2 being more reliable than AmigaDos - in
- >many ways it isn't as reliable or as mature - it is far newer, and
- >hasn't been developed as much as AmigaDos. I feel it might have a lot
- >of potential in a couple of years, but its too soon to tell. I've also
- >played with NT, which is rather non-impressive right now, but also has
- >potential.
- >
- >As for running 6 or 8 programs causing the machine to crash, my Amiga is
- >currently running 52 programs, right now. That's how it boots, given
- >the stuff I run at startup. It is very reliable. Often times I get
- >quite a few programs not only running, but all wanting CPU cycles at
- >once, and not only does it not crash, the user interface runs so fast
- >that you can't even tell there are number-crunching programs running
- >back there. AmigaDos is the best OS I've ever seen at that - bar none.
- >Not Unix, not OS/2, and certainly not Windows or System 7 come close.
- >All the others (and I've used them all) bog down horribly once they get
- >slightly busy. (Actually some types of Unix do OK, but others not so
- >well - it depends on their scheduling algorithm and whether they're
- >hitting swap).
- >
- >John
- >
-
- I usually run 19 programs at boot up. If I had more RAM, I would load ProWrite
- and Baudbandit on bootup as well. Of all the multitasking OS's out there,
- AmigaDOS responds the best to user input by *far*. I've used OS/2 on 16 and
- 20mhz 386dx's with 12 and 16M of ram, and my 6M 16mhz A3000 routinely dusts it
- in terms of speed and responsiveness, and multitasking efficiency.
-
- John
-