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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
Message-ID: <3893@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 06:18:02 GMT
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In article <49055ed8.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:
>In article <3883@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>Well, memory management on any Intel 80x86 chip is bound to be less than
>friendly, due to the retarded segment scheme we all love to hate.  But, the
>fact remains that I can write a program in 15 minutes for OS/2 to do basic
>windowing with some very powerful capabilities...the same program on the
>Amiga could take (???).  On the other hand, if I want to squeeze every last
>bit of performance out of my machine, I can do that with AmigaDOS.  Fat chance
>with OS/2.
>
> -Chris
>-----

True, Intuition in itself is very in depth and programming it can be somewhat
a not so trivial task... plus the Intuition structures get awefully big...
Another thing is the devices... wow... MsgPorts and everything, even if you
wanted to do something fairly small and simple.  But then the Amiga OS can
be programmed to the machines performance.  Yes, Intel memory management
is definitely less than friendly.  Kinda reminds you of the Commodore 128
aye?   Imagine all the volumes of references you would have if you had one
for every aspect of the OS...  The functions documentation is big enough...

-Dino Khoe
dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu