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- From: marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Beef Sandwich - Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
- Message-ID: <8773@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 15:25:03 GMT
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- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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- dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
- >ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
- >
- >>'>That's it. From what I can tell, the PCs lock up a lot more often than my
- >>'>Amiga crashes, by far. And often when they lock up, ctrl-shift-reset
- >>'>doesn't work and you have to power cycle. But rebooting an Amiga with
- >>'>ctrl-amiga-amiga always (and I mean ALWAYS) works. Overall, my Amiga
- >>'>crashes about once per week (I leave it on 24 hours/day, and i use it for
- >>'>several hours each day, mostly commercial apps). The PCs in the lab crash
- >>'>a couple of times per day, and sometimes a couple of times per minute. It
- >>'>all depends on the software. (And yes, OS/2 crashes also, just as much as
- >>'>Windows 3.1).
- >
- >> My experience is completely opposite. I've had my 486 running OS2
- >> since 2.0 came out in Late March. It's only crashed once since then,
- >> and that was my fault for trying to load the wrong drivers. I've had
- >> many bugridden freeware and shareware DOS programs crash under OS2, but
- >> fortunately because OS2 uses memory protection, the app dies not the
- >> OS. This is something the Amiga OS sorely lacks. On the Amiga's I
- >> have used ( owned an A500, had access to an A3000 ) when programs died
- >> it took the whole OS with it, and programs died quite a bit. A heck
- >> of a lot more then programs do on my 486 with OS2.
- >
- Well, I have an A3000 at home with 2.04 in rom and the 2.1 upgrade. At work I
- am developing under OS/2 with extended services AND the october service pack
- GA upgrade. Now I like OS/2 ...... BUT it is NOT more stabe than my AmigaDos!
- and for general use it's a PIG with an 8 meg system it starts swapping like
- crazy running just a couple apps. One thing for sure, I'll take it over
- Windoz ANY day......
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