Resource hungry operating system

[Kesa]

You are making the assumption that I don't understand the underlying technical reasons as described by Karlos.

You would be in error in this.

I actually thought both posts 10 and 11 were good. But maybe  understanding a concept and explaining it are 2 different things.  Especially when it is about something complicated like computers.

[the_leander]

I actually thought both posts 10 and 11 were good. But maybe  understanding a concept and explaining it are 2 different things.  Especially when it is about something complicated like computers.

I just wanted to show a real life example of why looking solely at how much resource a given system uses isn't the only variable - how it uses those resources is at least as important.

It wasn't my intent to get into the technical side of the discussion, especially when there are people (like Karlos) who are better suited to that side of things.

I am curious as to why the pair of you brought this up as an issue.

[Kesa]

Just trying to keep the peace. Kinda sick of the in fighting :cool:

[ajlwalker]

You are making the assumption that I don't understand the underlying technical reasons as described by Karlos.

You would be in error in this.

I'm afraid it is your assumption that is wrong.

Perhaps my post was too subtle.  Karlos comes across as a nice guy.

That help?

[the_leander]

I'm afraid it is your assumption that is wrong.

Perhaps my post was too subtle.  Karlos comes across as a nice guy.

That help?

Ah, so it's tone trolling.

Suck it up.

[Karlos]

I'm afraid it is your assumption that is wrong.

Perhaps my post was too subtle.  Karlos comes across as a nice guy.

That help?

Come now, that's unnecessary. I happen to know the_leander personally and can assure you he's a thoroughly decent feller. His humour is dry and quick and I dare say it is often misinterpreted.

We can all read too much into people's posting style.

[Gulliver]

So would you prefer to patch and update Amiga OS 3.1 yourself for a lean system or would you just go with 3.9?

Alternatively should you be able to manually (in a user friendly way) unselect/disable certain resource hogs. Pop up help and a lot of background functions as an example. If Windows is a GUI based OS why do you need to use the 'run program x' to get at some of the options.

The problem with patches is that they are just patches, not final solutions.

AmigaOS 3.9 can be made as nearly as lean as 3.1 if you know how to manually remove (in an unfriendly way) those extra components. I have managed, as an example, to run AmigaOS 3.9 on a 68000, just by removing some extra stuff. So it depends if you feel fine with the downgrade from 3.9 -> 3.1 functionality.

Well, Windows is bloated, but then it is aimed at the user experience, not at being resource efficient, and its hardware architecture advances with such a speed, they really dont have any obligation to optimize their code.

[Crom00]

Most resource hungy OS... Has to be mac 0s9.2 what a mess.
Os 10 in comparison wa a hardware upgrade on a disc.

[tone007]

Ah, so it's tone trolling.

Did someone say tone trolling?!

WINDOWS ROOLZ!

[the_leander]

Did someone say tone trolling?!

WINDOWS ROOLZ!

That's just regular brand... Needz moar exclamation marks though

[the_leander]

Did someone say tone trolling?!

WINDOWS ROOLZ!

Needz moar exclamationz!!!!!!1111oneoneoneeleventyone

[ajlwalker]

Come now, that's unnecessary. I happen to know the_leander personally and can assure you he's a thoroughly decent feller. His humour is dry and quick and I dare say it is often misinterpreted.

We can all read too much into people's posting style.

That's as may be, but I still think he could learn from your post.

At least I can still count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have been called a troll on a forum.  Amazingly I am not surprised that your "thoroughly decent" friend has joined a tiny few who have.

Must say, I had never heard the term tone troll before, so at least I learned something.  Thanks the leander.

[the_leander]

That's as may be, but I still think he could learn from your post.

This is me not caring about what you think.

Yes.

[ajlwalker]

This is me not caring about what you think.



Yes.

And confirming what I thought.

Stay classy!

[the_leander]

And confirming what I thought.

Stay classy!

You just can't help yourself, can you?

[Trev]

@ajlwalker

You are a mean person.

@thread

Sound and vision are perhaps the worst offenders. If we'd simply return to monophonic sound and monochrome displays, all our worries would be over. Let's ditch the fancy input devices as well. I'd much rather go back to systems that simply run what I tell them to run when I apply power.