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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Keywords: Macs, uh-oh
Message-ID: <18295@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 2 May 90 13:15:28 GMT
References: <20499@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <8930@hubcap.clemson.edu> <6460@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <6460@umd5.umd.edu> steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes:
>upset at its lack of memory protection.  I hate when a non-well behaved program
>trashes me out so bad that I have to reboot.
>I dont believe the Amiga has memory protection either?..??
>For the most part, Multifinder works well but you do require lots of ram.

Well, since the Amiga was multitasking from day one, even without memory
protection, fewer programs are ill-behaved.  Vendors can't just say
"Well, don't use multitasking" any more that Mac vendors can say
"Well, don't use the mouse with this program."  Few would buy a useful
program that crashed and needed to be rebooted often.  And since
programs on Amy expect to be sharing with other programs, they tend
to use less RAM also.  On a Mac, it's not a problem to use all
available memory (except under multifinder).   -- Darren