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- From: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
- 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.
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 01:13:24 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) says:
-
- >OS/2 is a real OS. While there are still some bugs, it is by far better than
- >anything on top of DOS/windows or DOS/Desqview. At least running about 6 to 8
- >different things at the same time wont crash the system or cause share violation
- >like another "ooperation system"
-
- 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
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