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- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 19:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.std.com>
- Subject: Re: Gem Listing (fwd)
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <memo.595168@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9407081926.A6301-0100000@undergrad>
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- Ofir:
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- ]MagiC works regardless of TOS nationality because it replaces TOS
- ]completely. Get your facts right. It has more of a future than Geneva IMO.
- ]Because it replaces TOS there's much more work to do on the Falcon, new
- ]XBIOS as well as lots of new AES calls. It's faster and more reliable than
- ]ANY of the competition.
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- You're forgetting one VITALLY important thing about Atari computers. TOS
- on ROM is one of the major reasons why Atari's waste so little RAM on the
- operating system.
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- Not to mention booting time.
-
- ]Sorry, I didn't mean that you will drop Geneva, but simply the size of
- ]yopur potential market compared the MagiC will _probably_ mean that MagiC
- ]is more accepted than Geneva. I am free to make up my own mind. I have
- ]MTOS, Geneva and MagiC, so I had a chance to try them all and my personal
- ]choice is MagiC.
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- Wrong again. The majority of us like small, fast, compact operating
- systems that don't waste precious RAM on the operating system. Geneva
- adds functionality to the existing OS, thereby saving a lot of RAM.
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- Sure, you could speed things up by replaceing BIOS, etc, but the smaller
- size of Geneva FAR outweighs the speed increase you'd get from replacing
- the whole OS.
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- MagiC violates that by replacing things that don't need to be replaced,
- puts the OS in RAM, and brings it down to the level of DOS, Windows, and
- System 7 that require HUGE amounts of system resouces just for the OS.
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- For a LONG time, computer scientists were talking about how an OS should
- not require excessive system resources... until UNIX and Windows NT came
- along.
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- Of course, I'm sure Geneva could do with its own good preemptive
- multitasking kernel controlled by its already good use of the cooperative OS.
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- My vote didn't work, and I did not get further explanation of how to make
- my vote on Ctrl-A. Could someone reiterate what I have to email?
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