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- From: dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Your Conscience)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.182416.22589@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:24:16 GMT
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- >> If this is true, then I'd like to know what Atari did to MiNT to do this.
- >> MiNT only has a 10% CPU overhead at worst. Not many multi-tasking OS's can
- >> do that well.
- >
- >Don't worry, it isn't true. I suspect that he was comparing apples and
- >oranges. No doubt OS/2 on a 50 Mhz 486 is faster than MultiTOS on an 8 Mhz
- >ST. But I suspect that given comparable hardware, MultiTOS is as fast or
- >faster.
-
- In my (somewhat limited, I've used multitos for only about 10 hours total) use
- of MultiTos as compared to OS/2 (which I've used more, but still no a lot),
- MultiTos is faster even on vastly "inferior" hardware (that is, slower
- processor, less ram, and a slower *rated* hard drive) that OS/2.
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- |-! -David Butler- dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- - And now a .sig sure to insult (or at least baffle) 95% of all computer users:
-
- ||| - Dos and Macintosh = Standardization and Stagnation - //
- / | \ - Atari and Commodore = Innovation and Invention - \//
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