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From: colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
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Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
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Date: 12 Dec 90 10:42:50 GMT
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In article <22110@well.sf.ca.us>, farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
> That's Mike, not Marc :-)

oops... Sorry!

> So what?  There's also no multitasking, and no hard drive.

Let me try another explanation for nuking the OS. I am new to the amiga world,
but multitasking on the amiga with many processes accessing the drives seems
to me an error-prone situation... By doing this I often get corrupted I/O
which I dont get by doing things sequentially. (*)

No, I'm not saying that AmigaDos is at fault, it may be one of the 10 resident
drivers/utilities I use which is at fault, but this stresses my point: If you
want PowerMonger to multitask, it is because you are a power user, and thus
are using tons of little taks whose interaction may lead to problems, making
you say "PM doesn't works", but the problem may be in your super-hyper-duper
screen saver...

So they perhaps want to avoid having bad reputation because of other people's
fault... Or they have discovered a bug in the OS preventing safe multitasking
for their purposes.

(*) As an example: Seems to me that using two concurrent processes to read
MSDOS disks via MSH yields you corrupted buffer I/Os, but I'm not sure

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