Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:28484 comp.sys.amiga:33477 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS Message-ID: Date: 9 May 89 05:13:33 GMT References: <5664@microsoft.UUCP> <6793@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 In article <6793@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > The Amiga system has demand loaded device drivers--are you sure OS/2 doesn't? > Sounds pretty primitive if it doesn't. Next thing you're going to be letting > me that an OS/2 machine has to be put though some expert-level configuration > process to add or possibly even remove a device or memory board. [much deleted] Actually, OS/half builds a directed graph (remember your graph theory from undergrad?) of each resource on the system being a node, and the edges are pointers to which resource requested to use which resource. It then does some graph theory algorithms and determines if a node is unreachable; and therefore should be unloaded. Don't believe me? Read Inside OS/2. ...and people wonder why it uses so much memory. Ha! I sort of thought that keeping counts with 16-bit integers would have worked a bit better myself. >Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" > {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy > Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University