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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: In defense of Purnelle
Summary: stability is a function of programmers intelligence
Message-ID: <549@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 28 May 88 18:03:36 GMT
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Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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In article <893@entropy.ms.washington.edu>, fetrow@bones.stat.washington.edu (Dave Fetrow) writes:
> limits, as a writers machine the Amiga software lags, and frankly it isn't
> quite as stable due to multitasking (a price us Amigans are willing to pay).
I am not sure why a multi-taking machine is less stable (I presume in the
sense of crashing oftener). When I crashed Amigas, it was because I was
hacking microemacs and fiddling with the display window (Now I know what
Amiga fireworks are. Tho' I don't know why Ami gets upset about conflicting
commands about window sizes); or because I was using timer device improperly
(On a borrowed 1000 with nothing to help me except the RKM). With finished
programs I have never had a crash. (Freeware excluded). The only trouble I
have had (I call it a bug; my friends don't) is: printer.device timing out
becuase I was compling a c program while emacs was trying to read a 3000-line
file. (Obvously the printer driver was being kept idle too long)
I don't run games except Chessmaster. If that is a guide, crashing is due to
bad programmers and not becuase of multi-tasking. If I am wrong, please tell
me and include exapmles.