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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- References: <amipb.05bh@amipb.gna.org>
- Message-ID: <paulk.2wop@terapin.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 11:05:45 PST
- Organization: BBS
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- > It seems you've forgotten what makes AmigaDos so appealing : the
- > custom chips facilitate the job of the main processor
-
- This statement tells me that you don't know much about how AmigaDOS
- works.
-
- Like I said before: 95% of AmigaDOS has absolutely nothing to do with
- any custom chips. They have no impact whatever on multitasking,
- libraries, or any of the other cool stuff except, as I said, screen
- sliding and speed of window drawing.
-
- > you would never have seen multiple-screens on the same monitor with
- > a Mac or an Atari.
-
- This is the ONLY difference in functionality that such hardware would
- bring about. Everything else could work the same, only a bit slower.
- That one feature sure aint much out of the whole system.
-
- > If you really think what you say, just buy a cheap PC with OS/2,
- > which isn't much different from AmigaDos.
-
- Not much different from AmigaDOS except it can't hardly run in less
- than ten megs of ram and is many times as complicated in areas where
- AmigaDOS is straightforward ...
-