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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: ST wins over Amiga (??!)
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 04:37:26 EST
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In article <414@gcc-milo.ARPA> zrm@gcc-milo.UUCP (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes:
>
>I have not yet seen any discussion of the relative merits of Amiga and ST
>software here. This is suprising, considering that software is one department
>where the ST takes a good drubbing from the Amiga. The ST's O.S. is derived,
>I think, from CPM68k. I never heard a nice word about that O.S. The Amiga's
>O.S. is derived from Tripos (sp?), which is a very nice, clean multi-tasking
>system.
>
>Let's see some flamage here!
>
>-Zigurd

One reason you probably have not heard too much about relative merits of
the O.S.'s is that most of the people on the net may be programmers who
may feel that this is irrelevant to the performance of the machine.
Not to imply that the O.S.'s may have no effect on performance, but
even if the O.S. is bad for a particular machine, you can always
discard it in favor of something better (OS9 perhaps etc.), and it
is the underlying hardware that is the important factor.  The ST may
not have a multi-tasking O.S. now, but that could change next rev. etc.

In addition, you may have not heard too much about the ST's O.S. from the
ST camp perhaps because they are aware that CP/M has never really been an
O.S. but just a sophisticated loader.  And, once your program gains
control, CP/M does so little for you it might as well not even be there,
especially as far as performance is concerned if you are not doing CP/M
calls.

Keith Doyle
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