About multitasking, what's best : AmigaOS, Linux, or Winblows XP ?

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Piru wrote:
@Speelgoedmannetje

Yet I haven't seen my Workbench (1.3) crashing.

It clearly means you must sell your Windows boxen and replace it with A500 running WB 1.3.

Or even better, replace it with C64 running GEOS. It has even less code that can have bugs.

You very well know what I 'm talking about (the KISS-approach)

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Piru wrote:
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In my opinion the free unices (Linux and the BSDs) is the most stable OSes for personal users

I agree 100%, being debian user.

Running in a CLI in Linux is simply perfect; nothing goes wrong whatsoever. However, kde is a complete disaster (haven't worked much yet with gnome or xfce).

Windows isn't as horrible as it used to be, however.

Indeed.
But when things go wrong things go really wrong.

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neon32 wrote:
You can argue the technicalities till the cows come home. But from a non techie point of view to a guy who just uses the machines. The feeling of quality and rock solid'ness of the amiga multitasking has never been matched by windows for me. Thats one of the reasons why after all these years i STILL want my Amiga OS back and to ditch my windows XP machine.

Theres so many nuances with windows that i've come across over the years, but i've just learned to live with them, because i've not had a choice. But it drives me nuts on a daily basis because i remember how good the Amiga once was. Simple things like if you sit and watch the clock on the date and times properties on ANY windows box, with NOTHING running in the background except system tasks. You tell me that that second hand doesn't keep jerking and stopping every few seconds. And this applies to everything, from flash animations in web pages, to video. I NEVER had that with the Amiga, the Amiga was rock solid and consistantly smooth. Thats the sign of quality.

While I agree with it mostly, I get the idea you use a system-hungry virus scanner. :-)

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stopthegop wrote:

"I've always believed the best software programming language is solder".

I can't agree more :lol:

I strongly believe ,considering todays software/hardware capabilities, a new computer needs to be designed from scratch.

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AmigaOS lacks virtual memory (and I'm not just talking about swapping stuff to the HD here)

Ehm, where would you otherwise get that memory from? :-?

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whabang wrote: Beleive me, you won't be able to do that with Windows XP or MacOS X (at least not that easily :-))

Well, I had such multiple times with both X-P as well as several Linux distributions.

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Ah, in that way.
Yes I agree that the lack of memory management/protection is a major drawback of the AmigaOS, it should have been in the design. Also, guru's should have been dealt with more properly.