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From: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <2134@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 89 22:21:29 GMT
Reply-To: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
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I don't really have much of an opportunity to use OS/2 or AmigaDOS, but I
couldn't help but wonder how different the two opperating systems are?
 
I don't understand why OS/2 uses 3 Mb of RAM (I think I read that somewhere) to be usefull, while with AmigaDOS you only need 256 Kb.  What does OS/2 give
you that AmigaDOS doesn't?  After all, they both multitask, have graphics
based interfaces, etc...  Is it maybe because the 68000 assembly language
is more compact than 80286 or 80386?
 
Please E-mail an answer to this, unless you really think everyone else
would like to know...  Heck it might make an interesting discussion...
 
  Thanks
    Ed Federmeyer
    ed@iitmax.iit.edu       <- Hard to get through to.
    sysed@iitVax.bitnet     <- Works everytime, so far!