Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS Message-ID: <0YN9Pky00VsfI5s1sW@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 7 May 89 19:20:16 GMT References: <2134@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <5625@microsoft.UUCP> , <5664@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 66 In-Reply-To: <5664@microsoft.UUCP> t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole) writes: > Sounds like an Amiga to me. It's been a while, but I used to use the > Amiga quite a bit. A 512K machine didn't do a whole lot, considering that > the OS ate half of it. Now that the OS is in ROM I suppose it's not such > a great concern, but the point remains a valid one. It never made a difference whether the OS was in ROM or not. The A1000 contained an extra 256K of RAM for the express purpose of holding the Kickstart ROM image. Back in the dark ages when my A1000 had only 512K, I remember having about 410K free when the machine booted up. > I am certainly no big Windows fan and am not defending it. You, however, > completely missed the point. Windows is a more intelligent OS in that it > demand loads code and resources. So does the Amiga. > In terms of memory management in general > it certainly qualifies as a second-generation PC operating system, > regardless of other problems it may have. Overlays on the Amiga are a > laughable substitute for VM or demand loading. The Amiga already has demand loading, and from the discussion going by on this newsgroup it seems that VM will be here soon. > kernel are bootstrapped and remain resident for obvious reasons. The dynamic > linking capabilities of OS/2, however, allow chunks of code to be shared > between applications with no duplication in memory. The dynamic libraries on the Amiga do exactly that. Furthermore, any re-entrant program can be made resident and invoked concurrently multiple times with no duplication in memory. > I have been using OS/2 for about nine months now, and can honestly say > that it is a tremendous pleasure to use. Until I tried it for myself > I was a member of the sheeplike crowd of folks who had not used it and > believed all the negative comments the reviewers constantly made. I don't believe all the negative publicity about OS/2 either, but it is apparent that you know less about the Amiga OS than you claim to know. > I totally dig > having email running all the time and checking for new messages, having > two compilations running, having my machine set up as a network server > (a piece of cake, and something that can be done at any time without > even rebooting), all while I'm using Word or a telecommunications > program and formatting a floppy. And that's on a 4.6M machine WITH > the DOS box enabled. That strikes me as being pretty good resource > management. > -- Stephen D. Poole -- t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP -- Mac II Fanatic -- Sounds like you've been using a Macintosh for too long. -- Michael Portuesi * Information Technology Center * Carnegie Mellon University INTERNET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu * BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ MAIL: Carnegie Mellon University, P.O. Box 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213