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From: dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stability of Commodore/Amiga
Keywords: Unix, Amiga, OS/2, DOS
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Date: 5 Mar 90 02:23:20 GMT
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In article <48ffd21f.db93@edsel.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:


>
>OS/2 is a very programmer-friendly environment.  The only thing that isn't
>friendly is the CLI, and that's because it mimcs the DOS CLI.  The OS/2 kernel
>and PM are both very powerful and ratheer easy to use.
>
>AmigaDOS is a far superior operating system to OS/2, IMHO.  Intuition is not
>as polished as Presentation Manager, but it could get to that point with a bit
>of hard work (which I hope we will see in 1.4).  The programmer's interface to
>the system is not as clean as it is in OS/2, but I believe the programmer 
>ultimately has more power under AmigaDOS.  (By the same token, it is more
>difficult to achieve similar results under AmigaDOS, at least for simple tasks.)

I don't know if I could say OS/2 is more programmer friendly, as far as
memory management goes, it is more organized since OS/2 uses contiguous 
spaces of memory compared to the chunks that Amiga's Exec does...  but that
is not necessarily an advantage either...

-Dino Khoe